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beat around the bush
To avoid getting to the point of an issue: “Your worries have nothing to do with the new proposal. Stop beating around the bush, and cast your vote!”
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
"The next few games are about him, I'm not going to beat around the bush," Coady said.
“What more do I need? That was a lot of high-level officials that we needed to confirm to us that he’s really gone. There was no way to beat around the bush,” Maryam Kamalmaz said.
After meeting President Joe Biden, he said: “We shouldn’t 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.”
I’ve willingly stuck it out through every movie in the horror series, so there’s no use beating around the bush: “Saw” is my kind of trash.
“There wasn’t a lot of beating around the bush with Boch, he would kind of just tell you like it is,” Crawford said.
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