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'beat around the bush' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'beat around the bush' with 3 example sentences.

beat around the bush verb

: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

  • Stop beating around the bush and tell me the truth.
  • Don't beat around the bush.
  • Stop beating around the bush and tell me what happened.

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