Betekenis van:
beat around the bush
to beat around the bush
Werkwoord
- dubieus handel drijven
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
to beat around the bush
Werkwoord
- uitvluchten, leugens vertellen
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Don't beat around the bush.
- Let's not beat around the bush! I'm pregnant, and you're the baby's father.
- Let's not beat around the bush here! I'm pregnant, and you're the kid's father.
- Do not beat around the bush; we have a problem, don't we?
- "... in other words, sex!?" "Geez, you don't beat around the bush!"
- Don't beat around the bush; tell me who is to blame.