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单词 beat the bush
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to beat the bush
a. To strike (water, bushes, or cover of any kind) in order to rouse or drive game; to scour or range over (a wood, etc.) in hunting. to beat the bush is also figurative as in 26c.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > beat
beata1400
to put upa1475
tuft1590
tusk1592
fowl1611
flaxa1848
brush1876
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > be cautious or take care [verb (intransitive)] > proceed with caution
to make it wisec1405
to feel (out) one's waya1450
to beat the bush1526
to beat about the bush1572
callc1650
to call canny1814
go-easy1860
to plough around1888
pussyfoot1902
to play it by ear1922
a1400 Cov. Myst. 119 Many a man doth bete the bow, Another man hath the brydde.
1486 Bk. St. Albans D j a Cast yowre sparehawke in to a tre and beete the bushes.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBviiiv Whiche..hath..betten the busshe that you may catche the byrde.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 707 How shall we get them to come into it? Truly never, except we first beat the River.
a1667 G. Wither I loved a Lass 'Twas I that beat the bush, The birds to others flew.
1707 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Reflexions upon Politeness of Manners 220 [They] can only beat the Bush, and never tend to the Head of the Business.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 209 The Huntsman..must..beat the Outside of the Springs or Thickets.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 11 Beating a thicket for a hare.
1829 W. Scott Waverley (new ed.) Pref. App. p. lxx The cover being now thoroughly beat by the attendants.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xvii. 290 I took a few men to beat the jungle.
figurative.1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 9 Together let us beat this ample Field.1790 R. Cumberland West Indian ii. 21 He..has been beating the town over to raise a little money.1861 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock One a.m. ⁋5 When the shadowy hero of the ‘Virginians’ was beating the town with my Lords Castlewood and March.
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to beat the bush
b. to beat the bush: (literal) in bat-fowling, to rouse the birds that they may fly into the net held by some one else; (figurative) to expend labour of which the fruit is not gained by oneself. (Cf. beat v.1 26) to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bush: to go indirectly and tentatively towards an object, to avoid coming to the point. (Cf. beat v.1 26c.)
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (intransitive)] > at night > rouse birds
to beat the bushc1440
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > use periphrasis
to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bushc1440
wind1528
periphrase1652
to go about1815
circumlocute1859
circumlocutionize1886
to go (all) round the houses1958
c1440 Generydes 4524 Some bete the bussh and some the byrdes take.
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iij A longe betyng aboute the busshe & losse of tyme to a yonge begynner.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 1 b If he utter his mind in plain wordes: and tell it orderly, without goynge about the bushe.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 12 That we shuld not seke about the bush for an vncertaine Godhead.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 528 We have beaten the bush, and not come plainly to the point.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. ii I went round the bush, and round the bush, before I came to the matter.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 4 621 He never goes about the bush for a phrase.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ix. 212 He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iii. 29 Benighted fowls, when you beat their bushes, rush towards any light.
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