Usually means: Taking unnecessarily long, indirect route.
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  1. go (all) round the houses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. go round the houses: Wiktionary
  3. go round the houses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. go round the houses: Legal dictionary
  2. go round the houses: Financial dictionary

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  1. go round the houses: Encyclopedia

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  1. go round the houses: Idioms

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verb:  Alternative form of go around the houses [(idiomatic) Do something (especially talking) circuitously.]

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