話裡套話

to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information / to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed

to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ)

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb

polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb