beat around the bush
UK also beat about the bushC1 to avoid talking about what is important:
Don't beat around the bush - get to the point!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- euphemism
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- roundabout
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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