bush
(bʊʃ )
Word forms: bushes
1. countable noun B2
A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.
Trees and bushes grew down to the water's edge.
Synonyms: shrub, plant, hedge, undergrowth
2. singular noun [oft NOUN noun]
The wild, uncultivated parts of some hot countries are referred to as the bush.
They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours.
The jeep was found lying in thick bush.
3. to beat about the bush phrase
If you tell someone not to beat about the bush, you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way.
Stop beating about the bush. What's he done?
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Idioms:
not beat about the bush [British] or not beat around the bush
to say what you want to say clearly and directly, even though it is not pleasant
I decided not to beat around the bush. `I'm at Sam's,' I told her. `Eddie didn't come back from his paper route yet. Nobody knows where he is.'
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the bush telegraph [British, old-fashioned]
the way in which information or news can be passed on from person to person in conversation
No, you didn't tell me, but I heard it on the bush telegraph.
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Translations:
Chinese: 矮树丛, 灌木丛
Japanese: 茂み thicket, 低木 shrub
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