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beat around the bush

verb

1 beat around the bush

Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

synonyms: equivocate, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate.

Dutch: liegen, om iets heen draaien, dubbelzinnig spreken, terugkrabbelen, om de hete brei dansen, rond de pot draaien, afwijken, draaien


Moby thesaurus: about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, circumlocute, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, go round about, hedge, hem and haw, mystify ... show more.

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