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单词 beat around the bush
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beat around the bush

idiom(UKalsobeat about the bush)
C1
toavoidtalkingabout what isimportant:
（说话）转弯抹角，兜圈子
Don'tbeataround thebush- get to thepoint!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
  • circumlocutory
  • equivocate
  • euphemism
  • hedging
  • implicit
  • implicitly
  • indirectly
  • lede
  • mincing
  • move offsomething/on (tosomething)
  • obfuscate
  • obscure
  • parry
  • sanitize
  • stray
  • veil
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(Definition ofbeat around the bushfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

beat around the bush| American Dictionary

beat around the bush

idiom
totalkaboutlotsofunimportantthings because youwanttoavoidtalkingabout what is reallyimportant:
Quitbeatingaround thebushand say what’s onyourmind.
(Definition ofbeat around the bushfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/beat-around-the-bush##
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