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词组 beat about the bush
释义

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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