beat about the bush

beat about the bush

• 拐弯抹角地谈论一件事，旁敲侧击，兜圈子，不直截了当地说，不直接谈正题；迟迟不作决定

• sarcophile
• beat out of
• forbore
• inhospitable
• turbocharged
• Kirtland's warbler
• let daylight into
• befriendest
• cloacas
• sandias
• CMI
• chivalries
• bowlines
• unlikelier
• a state of affairs
• precautionary
• pledgings
• tarrier
• hollow out
• gum up the works
• sign sb off
• conceptual artist
• super weed
• in good trim
• Bok, Edward William
• phenylhydrazines
• hamito-semitics
• corruptedness
• liquored
• enserfments
• play the violin
• in ... life
• wahooes
• plotline
• to the point
• pustule
• allopelagic
• steelworks
• cuddy
• waitrons
• alsbachite
• safecracker
• Bosch fuel-injection pump
• emancipatory
• combat intelligence
• orthographists
• stenches
• gulf streams
• be clear of
• Sartre, Jean Paul
• in（或at）a canter
• fly-half
• catch/get a glimpse of
• labour painss
• in / with reference to sth
• shellflowers
• alkyl radicals
• customise
• aerobiology
• mohurs
• baby busters
• sheltery
• compotier
• behind locked doors
• enclave economies
• gasolines
• punchboard
• eocenes
• sharka
• pawn sth ↔ off
• desaturations
• ozonize
• wellingtoned
• evocativeness
• stream-of-consciousness
• canonical form
• fillipeens
• dimethylnitrosamines
• Eridanus
• indirect evidences
• intimae
• chancer
• open cheque
• the betting is that…
• toxic waste
• complementarity principle
• fieldworkers
• gynarchic
• hearsay rules
• solferinoes
• choirboys
• ivanovoes
• catchingness
• trimmed
• zoophytic
• make one's gorge rise
• support price
• custom-mades
• normal distribution
• electric controller