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"Beat around the bush" is an idiom that
means to avoid addressing a topic directly,
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or to speak in a roundabout or indirect
manner, rather than getting to the point.
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Instead of beating around the bush,
just tell me what you really think.
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She was beating around the bush
because she didn't want to tell
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him that she wasn't really interested in him.
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