beat around the bush
Verb
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Verb
beat around the bush
- (idiomatic) To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally.
- (idiomatic) To delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant.
- Just stop beating around the bush and tell me what the problem is!
- cut to the chase
- get on with it
- get to the point
- French: tourner autour du pot
- German: um den heißen Brei herumreden
- Italian: menare il can per l'aia, girarci intorno, tergiversare, fare giri di parole, andare per le spicce
- Portuguese: fazer rodeios, usar de rodeios
- Russian: ходи́ть вокру́г да о́коло
- Spanish: andarse con rodeos, andar con ambages
- French: tourner autour du pot
- German: um den heißen Brei herumreden
- Italian: menare il can per l'aia
- Portuguese: enrolar, embromar
- Russian: ходи́ть вокру́г да о́коло
- Spanish: ir por los cerros de Úbeda, andarse por las ramas
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