"beat about the bush" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Anglais]

IPA: \biːt əˈbɑʊt ðə bʊʃ\ Forms: to beat about the bush [infinitive], beats about the bush [present, third-person, singular], beat about the bush ou beaten about the bush [participle, past], beating about the bush [participle, present]
  1. Tourner autour du pot. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: fr-beat_about_the_bush-en-verb-KIKK2HxZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: beat around the bush

Inflected forms

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