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Verb: beat about the bush
Usage: informal
  1. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
    "Stop beating about the bush and tell me what really happened";
    - beat around the bush [informal], equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter [archaic], weasel [informal]

Derived forms: beat about the bush, beats about the bush

Type of: disinform, misinform, mislead

Encyclopedia: Beat about the bush