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探口风

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Collocation

1
探一探口风
2
探一下口风
3
探出口风
4
向……(某人)
5
探……(某人)的口风

Definition

探口风

Literally means:

someone out about something

Actually means:

find out someone's opinions

It means trying to make another person talk about something so as to find out about or ascertain his attitude or opinion.

设法让对方谈论某人或或某事,并从中捕捉信息,以便确定对方的态度或看法。

Example

Used as predicate, object or attributive, and it can have other words in between. (作谓语、宾语、定语,中间可插入别的词语)
1
liǎng
rén
dōu
shì
lái
tàn
kǒufēng
口风
de
zhě
记者
  
,
shì
可是
zhège
这个
ànzi
案子
shi
guǎn
de
  
,
zhǐhǎo
只好
ràng
men
他们
shīwàng
失望
le
  

The two men were journalists who came to explore the wind, but the case was not in my charge and they had to be disappointed.

2
Wèile
为了
miǎn
避免
gān
尴尬
  
,
měi
每次
zhǎo
rén
jiè
qián
dōu
xiān
tàn
xià
duìfāng
对方
de
kǒufēng
口风
  
,
děngdào
等到
quèxìn
确信
méiyǒu
没有
wèn
问题
shí
  
,
cái
zhèngshì
正式
kāikǒu
开口
tán
jiè
qián
de
shì
  

In order to avoid embarrassment, every time he asked someone to borrow money, he first probed the other side's mouth, and waited until he was sure there was no problem before officially talking about borrowing money.

3
Zhège
这个
rén
zuǐba
嘴巴
hěn
jǐn
  
,
yàoshi
要是
néng
tàn
chū
shénme
什么
kǒufēng
口风
lái
  
,
suàn
de
běnshì
本事
  
,
jiù
zhēn
de
  

This person's mouth is very tight, if you can find out what the wind to, that is your errever, I really serve you.

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