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Beating about the Bush

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Not coming directly to the matter in hand, but feeling your way timidly by indirection, as persons beat bushes to ascertain if game is lurking under them.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bearnais (Le)
Beasts (Heraldic):
Beastly Drunk
Beat
Beat (To)
Beat (To)
Beat. (French, abattre, to abate.)
Beaten to a Mummy
Beaten with his own Staff
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Beau Ideal
Beau Jour beau Retour (A)
Beau Lion (Un)
Beau Monde
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