话里套话

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

CEDICT

  1. 谈论某事时牵涉其他事项。
  2. 在谈话中有意测知他人隐私。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

=1 话 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
=1 话 huà old variant of 话 huà
=2 里 lǐ variant of 里 lǐ
=2 里 lǐ
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written 里 lǐ
=2 里 lǐ
  1. li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
  2. neighborhood
  3. ancient administrative unit of 25 families
  4. (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 镇 zhèn and neighborhood 邻 lín levels
3 套话 tàohuà
  1. polite phrase; conventional greetings
  2. cliché
  3. to try to worm facts out of sb