英语单词“beat around the bush”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析
单词
beat around the bush
释义
beat around the bush
idiom(UKalsobeat about the bush)C1toavoidtalkingabout what isimportant:(说话)转弯抹角,兜圈子Don'tbeataround thebush- get to thepoint!别兜圈子了——有话直说!SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesDigressing and being indirect or evasive- bury the ledeidiom
- candy coat
- candy coating
- candy-coated
- circumlocutory
- equivocate
- euphemism
- hedging
- implicit
- implicitly
- indirectly
- lede
- mincing
- move offsomething/on (tosomething)
- obfuscate
- obscure
- parry
- sanitize
- stray
- veil
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beat around the bush
idiomtotalkaboutlotsofunimportantthings because youwanttoavoidtalkingabout what is reallyimportant:Quitbeatingaround thebushand say what’s onyourmind.(Definition ofbeat around the bushfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/beat-around-the-bush##