round-about
roundabout way

The sonofabitch may have wrecked The Lady, but in a round-about way we owe him a vote of thanks.

So the jumping grains are really a round-about way for kidnapped electrons to "go home".

Both lead to Paris, one through the forest, the other by a round-about way.

Cnoyen's information came in a very round-about way.

I figured it best to come a round-about way.

And so I'm still able to put measures on the ballot, I just have to do it in a sort of round-about way.

This is all a round-about way of saying what you already know.

Isn't this really just a round-about way of bailing out the banks?

They had a clear path, if they took a round-about way to Southbury.

It was a delicate question, and she phrased it in a round-about way.