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beat around the bush idiom(UK alsobeat about the bush) C1 to avoid talking about what is important: (说话)转弯抹角,兜圈子 Don't beat around the bush - get to the point!别兜圈子了——有话直说! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Digressing and being indirect or evasive bury the ledeidiom candy coat candy coating candy-coated circumlocution circumlocutory elliptical f-bomb get on to/onto something glancingly gloss over something go off on a tangentidiom implicit parry prevaricate stray tangent tiptoe around something/someone unexpressed unvoiced
beat around the bush | American Dictionary
beat around the bush idiom to talk about lots of unimportant things because you want to avoid talking about what is really important: Quit beating around the bush and say what’s on your mind.
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