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beat around the bush
- To avoid getting to the point of an issue: 鈥淵our worries have nothing to do with the new proposal. Stop beating around the bush, and cast your vote!鈥
Idioms and Phrases
Also, beat about the bush . Approach indirectly, in a roundabout way, or too cautiously. For example, Stop beating around the bush鈥攇et to the point . This term, first recorded in 1572, originally may have alluded to beating the bushes for game.Example Sentences
鈥淲hat more do I need? That was a lot of high-level officials that we needed to confirm to us that he鈥檚 really gone. There was no way to beat around the bush,鈥 Maryam Kamalmaz said.
After meeting President Joe Biden, he said: 鈥淲e shouldn鈥檛 beat around the bush: support from the United States is indispensable for the question of whether Ukraine will be in a position to defend itself.鈥
I鈥檝e willingly stuck it out through every movie in the horror series, so there鈥檚 no use beating around the bush: 鈥淪aw鈥 is my kind of trash.
鈥淭here wasn鈥檛 a lot of beating around the bush with Boch, he would kind of just tell you like it is,鈥 Crawford said.
鈥淗e鈥檚 not gonna beat around the bush with nothing,鈥 Miller said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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