talk/speak in riddles
riddle
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈrɪd.əl/ us /ˈrɪd.əl/
to make a lot of holes in something: 使布满洞孔
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.高射炮炮弹把机翼打得千疮百孔。

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Making holes in things
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prick
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puncture
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redrill
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riddle
noun[ C ]
us/ˈrɪd·əl/

riddlenoun[C] (QUESTION)

a question that has a surprising or amusing answer, or something that is a mystery or is hard to explain:
Scholars have not completely solved the riddle of the sphinx.
riddle
verb[ T ]
us/ˈrɪd·əl/

riddleverb[T] (MAKE HOLES)

to make a lot of holes in something:
By the end of the game we had riddled the wall around the dartboard with a dozen little holes.

Examples of riddle

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Even the early statistical boards recognized that these publications were riddled with problems.
Many have admonished that the path toward ' enlightenment ' is riddled with traps and pitfalls, mainly from an inflated sense of self, ignorance or illusion.
He cites numerous collections and studies of sixteenthand seventeenth-century enigmas and riddles.
In a world riddled with illiteracy, prejudices and ignorance, the re-socialisation process will take time and effort.
Disappointingly, chapters 2-5 are also riddled with inaccurate information, unsubstantiated claims and a clear lack of knowledge of published literature in the field.
Every section is riddled with links connecting to further insight on whatever is being discussed.
The prose is generally involuted and riddled with technical jargon.
Of course, there are still many riddles that remain unsolved in this small region concerning the mechanism of the magnetic reconnection.
Work shows us the way to happily, happily solve all riddles of the world.
We posit that additional flattened sculptures and slabs riddled with small circular depressions were foci of sacred activities aimed at petitioning favors from supernatural forces.
The following analysis is valid even if is riddled with economic distortions and inequities.
In each case, the relationship between ' authority ' and popular thought and behaviour was not one-way : it was a complex, reciprocal relationship riddled with ambivalences.
To conclude, this volume is riddled with slapdash scholarship, unsustained claims and irregular presentation of data and citations.
The problems to be solved are numerous and each of the two transmissions has its very specific riddles.
The starting point was provided by the "sides-and-area riddles" of the surveyor tradition.
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