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View synonyms for beat around the bush
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!”
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Also, beat about the bush . Approach indirectly, in a roundabout way, or too cautiously. For example, Stop beating around the bush—get to the point . This term, first recorded in 1572, originally may have alluded to beating the bushes for game.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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