套話

套话
tàohuà
  1. polite phrase; conventional greetings
  2. cliché
  3. to try to worm facts out of sb

CEDICT

  1. formulaic language; stereotyped expression; cliché
  2. polite formula; conventionality; conventionalism
  3. to coax a secret from (or out of) someone; to trick someone into telling the truth

Wiktionary

  1. 普通應酬的習慣語。
  2. 用話設計問出真情。
  3. 大陸地區指公式化的空話。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 套 tào
  1. to cover
  2. to encase
  3. cover
  4. sheath
  5. to overlap
  6. to interleave
  7. to model after
  8. to copy
  9. formula
  10. harness
  11. loop of rope
  12. (fig.) to fish for
  13. to obtain slyly
  14. classifier for sets, collections
  15. bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names)
  16. tau (Greek letter Ττ)
2 話 huà
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said

classifiers: 種, 席, 句, 口, 番

Containing this entry

話裡套話 huàlǐtàohuà
  1. to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information
  2. to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed

Related entries

陳詞濫調 chéncílàndiào
  1. cliché
  2. commonplace
  3. truism
  4. stereotype
俗套 sútào
  1. conventional patterns
  2. cliché
套子 tàozi
  1. sheath
  2. case
  3. cover
  4. conventional method
  5. cliché
  6. trick
  7. (coll.) condom