bush

beat about the bush: seebeat.

beat the bushes: seebeat.

bush telegraph: seetelegraph.

go bush leave your usual surroundings; run wild.

☞ Bush in the sense of 'wild, wooded, or uncleared country' became current among English speakers during 19th-century British colonial expansion. In South Africa it may have been adopted directly from Dutch bosch.

Sydney or the bush: seeSydney.