beat about the bush discuss a matter without coming to the point; be ineffectual and waste time.
☞ This phrase is a metaphor which originated in the shooting or netting of birds; compare with beat the bushes below.
2013Scary Duck Pete was-and let's not beat about the bush-the school git, who lived permanently under the wing of his over-protective mother.
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