beat about/around the bush

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbeat about/around the bushbeat about/around the bushDELAYto avoid or delay talking about something embarrassing or unpleasant Don’t beat around the bush. Ask for your account to be paid, and paid quickly. → beatExamples from the Corpusbeat about/around the bush• Don't beat about the bush.• Eliot did not beat about the bush.• I am not a person to beat about the bush.• I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush.• Let us stop beating about the bush.• She winced at their infelicities, at the clumsy way they beat about the bush.• No need to beat about the bush sweetie.

单词	beat about/around the bush
释义	beat about/around the bush From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbeat about/around the bushbeat about/around the bushDELAYto avoid or delay talking about something embarrassing or unpleasant Don’t beat around the bush. Ask for your account to be paid, and paid quickly. → beatExamples from the Corpusbeat about/around the bush• Don't beat about the bush.• Eliot did not beat about the bush.• I am not a person to beat about the bush.• I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush.• Let us stop beating about the bush.• She winced at their infelicities, at the clumsy way they beat about the bush.• No need to beat about the bush sweetie.
随便看	a sufficiency of a sufficiency of something a sugar lump a suggestion of a suggestion of something a summer day a summer day/evening a summer evening a summer vacation a Sunday a superfluity of a superfluity of something a surfeit of a surfeit of something a surge of a surge of something a survival from a survival from something a suspicion of a suspicion of something a sweat a sweet deal a swizz a sword of Damocles a sympathetic ear