Usually means: Avoid direct topic; speak evasively.
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  1. beat around the bush: Merriam-Webster
  2. beat around the bush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beat around the bush: Vocabulary.com
  4. beat around the bush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. beat around the bush: Wiktionary
  6. beat around the bush: Dictionary.com
  7. Beat around the bush: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. beat around the bush: Rhymezone
  9. beat around the bush: FreeDictionary.org
  10. beat around the bush: ESL Idiom Page
  11. beat around the bush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. BEAT AROUND THE BUSH: Ye Olde English Sayings
  13. beat around the bush: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. beat around the bush: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat around the bush: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (beat around the bush)

verb:  (idiomatic) To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally.
verb:  (idiomatic) To delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant.

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