See beat around the bush on Wiktionary
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"To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally."
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"(idiomatic) To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally."
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ǰur cecel",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "ջուր ծեծել"
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"roman": "yuġ vaṙel",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "յուղ վառել"
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"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "marejar la perdiu"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "拐彎抹角"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǎiwānmòjiǎo",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "拐弯抹角"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "轉彎抹角"
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"roman": "zhuǎnwānmòjiǎo",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "转弯抹角"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dōuquānzi",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "兜圈子"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "繞圈子"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ràoquānzi",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "绕圈子"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "rond de pot draaien"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "om de hete brij dansen"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "ĉirkaŭparoli"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "kierrellä"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "jaaritella"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "puhua ummet ja lammet"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "tourner autour du pot"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "um den heißen Brei herumreden"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "kerülgeti, mint macska a forró kását"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "köntörfalaz"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "mellébeszél"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "menare il can per l'aia"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "girarci intorno"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "tergiversare"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "fare giri di parole"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "andare per le spicce"
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"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "بڕۆ سەر ئەصلی بابەت"
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"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "ronderëm de Bräi schwätzen"
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"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "dur mal-lewża"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "tītahataha"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "gå som katten rundt den varme grøten"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"tags": [
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"word": "owijać w bawełnę"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "fazer rodeios"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "usar de rodeios"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "enrolar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "encher linguiça"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "ходи́ть вокру́г да о́коло (xodítʹ vokrúg da ókolo, literally “walk round and about”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "тяну́ть рези́ну (tjanútʹ rezínu, literally “pull rubber”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "перелива́ть из пусто́го в поро́жнее (perelivátʹ iz pustóvo v poróžneje, literally “empty one container into another”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "okolišati"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "obilaziti kao mačak oko vruće kaše"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "andarse con rodeos"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "andar con ambages"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "gå som katten kring gröten"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "tl",
"english": "roundabout",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "pasikut-sikot"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "magpaligoy-ligoy"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "lumigoy-ligoy"
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{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ออกทะเล (ɔ̀ɔk-tá-lee, literally “to go out to the sea”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ชักแม่น้ำทั้งห้า (chák-mɛ̂ɛ-náam-táng-hâa, literally “to allude to all the five rivers”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
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"word": "cut to the chase"
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{
"word": "get on with"
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{
"word": "get to the point"
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{
"text": "Just stop beating around the bush and tell me what the problem is!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1870, Horatio Alger, Rufus and Rose:",
"text": "\"Look here,\" said Smith, menacingly, \"if you think I cheated you, you might as well say so right out. I don't like beating around the bush.\"",
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"To delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant."
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"(idiomatic) To delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant."
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"word": "go around the houses"
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{
"word": "prevaricate"
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{
"word": "pussyfoot"
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{
"word": "ramble"
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{
"word": "tergiversate"
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{
"word": "waffle"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ǰur cecel",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "ջուր ծեծել"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "yuġ vaṙel",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "յուղ վառել"
},
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "轉彎抹角"
},
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zyun³ waan¹ mut³ gok³, zyun³ waan¹ mut⁶ gok³",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "转弯抹角"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "遊花園"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"note": "游花园 (jau⁴ faa¹ jyun⁴⁻², literally “to wander around the garden”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "拐彎抹角"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǎiwānmòjiǎo",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "拐弯抹角"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "chodit kolem horké kaše"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "rond de pot draaien"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "om de hete brij dansen"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "ĉirkaŭparoli"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "kiertää kuin kissa kuumaa puuroa"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "kierrellä"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "tourner autour du pot"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "um den heißen Brei herumreden"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "köntörfalaz"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "tala í kringum"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "fara í kringum eins og köttur í kringum heitan graut"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "menare il can per l'aia"
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"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "dur mal-lewża"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "tītahataha"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "gå som katten rundt den varme grøten"
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"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "owijać w bawełnę"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "enrolar"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "embromar"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "ходи́ть вокру́г да о́коло (xodítʹ vokrúg da ókolo, literally “walk round and about”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "тяну́ть рязи́ну (tjanútʹ rjazínu, literally “pull rubber”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "перелива́ть из пусто́го в поро́жнее (perelivátʹ iz pustóvo v poróžneje, literally “empty one container into another”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "ir por los cerros de Úbeda"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "andarse por las ramas"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "gå som katten kring het gröt"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "pasikut-sikot"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ออกทะเล (ɔ̀ɔk-tá-lee, literally “to go out to the sea”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
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{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ชักแม่น้ำทั้งห้า (chák-mɛ̂ɛ-náam-táng-hâa, literally “to allude to all the five rivers”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "lafı dolandırmak"
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "vòng vo tam quốc"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ǰur cecel",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "ջուր ծեծել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "yuġ vaṙel",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "յուղ վառել"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "marejar la perdiu"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "拐彎抹角"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǎiwānmòjiǎo",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "拐弯抹角"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "轉彎抹角"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhuǎnwānmòjiǎo",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "转弯抹角"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dōuquānzi",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "兜圈子"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "繞圈子"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ràoquānzi",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "绕圈子"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "rond de pot draaien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "om de hete brij dansen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "ĉirkaŭparoli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "kierrellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "jaaritella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "puhua ummet ja lammet"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "tourner autour du pot"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "um den heißen Brei herumreden"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "kerülgeti, mint macska a forró kását"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "köntörfalaz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "mellébeszél"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "menare il can per l'aia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "girarci intorno"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "tergiversare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "fare giri di parole"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "andare per le spicce"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "بڕۆ سەر ئەصلی بابەت"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "ronderëm de Bräi schwätzen"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "dur mal-lewża"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "tītahataha"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "gå som katten rundt den varme grøten"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "owijać w bawełnę"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "fazer rodeios"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "usar de rodeios"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "enrolar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "encher linguiça"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "ходи́ть вокру́г да о́коло (xodítʹ vokrúg da ókolo, literally “walk round and about”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "тяну́ть рези́ну (tjanútʹ rezínu, literally “pull rubber”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "перелива́ть из пусто́го в поро́жнее (perelivátʹ iz pustóvo v poróžneje, literally “empty one container into another”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "okolišati"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "obilaziti kao mačak oko vruće kaše"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "andarse con rodeos"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "andar con ambages"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "gå som katten kring gröten"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"english": "roundabout",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "pasikut-sikot"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "magpaligoy-ligoy"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points",
"word": "lumigoy-ligoy"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ออกทะเล (ɔ̀ɔk-tá-lee, literally “to go out to the sea”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ชักแม่น้ำทั้งห้า (chák-mɛ̂ɛ-náam-táng-hâa, literally “to allude to all the five rivers”)",
"sense": "to treat a topic but omit its main points"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ǰur cecel",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "ջուր ծեծել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "yuġ vaṙel",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "յուղ վառել"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "轉彎抹角"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zyun³ waan¹ mut³ gok³, zyun³ waan¹ mut⁶ gok³",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "转弯抹角"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "遊花園"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"note": "游花园 (jau⁴ faa¹ jyun⁴⁻², literally “to wander around the garden”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "拐彎抹角"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǎiwānmòjiǎo",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "拐弯抹角"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "chodit kolem horké kaše"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "rond de pot draaien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "om de hete brij dansen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "ĉirkaŭparoli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "kiertää kuin kissa kuumaa puuroa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "kierrellä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "tourner autour du pot"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "um den heißen Brei herumreden"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "köntörfalaz"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "tala í kringum"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "fara í kringum eins og köttur í kringum heitan graut"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "menare il can per l'aia"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "dur mal-lewża"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "tītahataha"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "gå som katten rundt den varme grøten"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "owijać w bawełnę"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "enrolar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "embromar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "encher linguiça"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "ходи́ть вокру́г да о́коло (xodítʹ vokrúg da ókolo, literally “walk round and about”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "тяну́ть рязи́ну (tjanútʹ rjazínu, literally “pull rubber”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "перелива́ть из пусто́го в поро́жнее (perelivátʹ iz pustóvo v poróžneje, literally “empty one container into another”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "ir por los cerros de Úbeda"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "andarse por las ramas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "gå som katten kring het gröt"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "pasikut-sikot"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ออกทะเล (ɔ̀ɔk-tá-lee, literally “to go out to the sea”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ชักแม่น้ำทั้งห้า (chák-mɛ̂ɛ-náam-táng-hâa, literally “to allude to all the five rivers”)",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "lafı dolandırmak"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant",
"word": "vòng vo tam quốc"
}
],
"word": "beat around the bush"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.