çekim: geçmiş redete um den heißen Brei herum · ortaç um den heißen Brei herumgeredet · şimdiki redet um den heißen Brei herum · ulaç um den heißen Brei herumredend
köken: Literally, “to talk around the hot porridge”.
to beat around the bush, prevaricate, palter (to talk insincerely; to evade the truth deliberately)
çekim: geçmiş köntörfalaztak
köken: From the dialectal reduplication köntörfarol, from the obsolete köntöl (“the rear wheels of the car slide from the road to the side”) of unknown origin + farol (“to side-slip, skid”). The latter was changed to falaz by folk etymology.