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vb. (present participle of beat around the bush English)
Usage examples of "beating around the bush".
But I knew from my brief training and experience with Mideast types that they are masters at beating around the bush, talking in circumlocution, answering a question with a question, engaging in seemingly endless theoretical discussions, and so forth.
Now you're in this thing and you're in it deep, and let's quit beating around the bush before there's some serious trouble here, okay?
Anyway, after that endless beating around the bush, all of a sudden they can’.
Damn you boy let me see what's really on your mind instead of beating around the bush like this!
Why don't you just ask me your question instead of beating around the bush?
He was beating around the bush again, rather than asking her directly what he wanted to know, and she was tired of it.