拐彎抹角

lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush

Characters and words in 拐彎抹角

to turn (a corner etc) / to kidnap / to swindle / to misappropriate / seven (used as a substitute for 七[qi1]) / variant of 枴|拐[guai3]

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is turning round and round (拐) her distiller (另) in the airplane (ai3) while using a toy claw (扌) as a cane (拐). She wants to distill chloroform to sedate and kidnap (拐) children.
cane / walking stick / crutch / old man's staff

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is turning round and round (拐) her distiller (另) in the airplane (ai3) while using a toy claw (扌) as a cane (拐). She wants to distill chloroform to sedate and kidnap (拐) children.
variant of 枴|拐[guai3]

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is turning round and round (拐) her distiller (另) in the airplane (ai3) while using a toy claw (扌) as a cane (拐). She wants to distill chloroform to sedate and kidnap (拐) children.
to go round a curve / to turn a corner / fig. a new direction
to bend / bent / a bend / a turn (in the road etc) / CL:道[dao4]

= + : Willy Walrus (w) wants to help the also runner (亦) to also win a race after all. The also ran is racing against Bender (弯) who is in the lead and will soon reach the goal, the anthill (an1). Willy wants to help the also ran by throwing rods towards Bender, but Bender just bends (弯) them into composite bows (弓) and shoots them back towards Willy before reaching anthill.
to bend / bent / a bend; a turn (in a road etc) / CL:道[dao4]
to wipe
to smear / to wipe / to erase / classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc

= + : Inside of the observatory (o3) Jehova's Witness (末) is telling Mahatma Gandhi (m) that the world is going to end soon, but Mahatma Gandhi just wipes (扌) his mouth with a toy claw (扌) for speaking such nonsense.
to plaster / to go around / to skirt
surname Jue
angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Joan of Arc finds a hurt crane in a corner inside of the aorta. The crane hurt itself with a sharp horn earlier, which is now lying in another corner. Joan of Arc pulls out her first aid kit and administers first aid.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a horn.
role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale

= + : Zeus is practising his theatre role just inside the elevator's kitchen: he's gonna play the dying swan. A crane flies by and sees him, thinking Zeus is really dying, and instantly starts administering first aid with a first aid kit he coincidentally carried around.

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