beat around the bush

VERB
  1. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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How To Use beat around the bush In A Sentence

  • Let us be frank and don't beat around the bush.
  • Don't beat around the bush, come straight to the point!
  • Don't beat around the bush - get to the point!
  • Don't beat around the bush, come straight to the point!
  • Don't beat around the bush . Ask for your account to be paid, and paid quickly.
  • They have to beat around the bush and chase their friends to the swamps by throwing things like "svelte" at them. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
  • Instead of giving him your money outright in a big purse as you would do with a _seraskier_, you beat around the bush. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
  • Don't beat around the bush, come straight to the point!
  • Don't beat around the bush, come straight to the point!
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