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Today's expression is a good one.

It is beat around the bush. Don't beat around the bush.

Quit beating around the bush. Are you beating around the bush? You always beat around the bush.

B-E-A-T, beat. beat means in this case to hit to hit beat around beat near something beat near beer beat around what the bush b-u-s-h a bush is similar to a shrub, S-H-R-U-B. It's like a tree, but very short. It's not like a tall

tree. And inside the bush, so like once again, it's bushy like a tree, but inside, underneath

the bush, rabbits like to live and birds

like to live so a long time ago if you were a hunter and you wanted to get a rabbit or you wanted to get a bird, what many hunters would do is they would go find a bush and they would hit the ground around the bush to scare out the rabbit or the bird.

They would boom boom, boom, boom. They would be hitting the rabbit or the bird. They would boom, boom, boom.

They would be hitting the ground around the bush.

They would not directly shoot into the bush.

They would beat around the bush.

And then when the rabbit would run or the bird would fly, they would shoot the animal

and they would have dinner.

This is the idea of to beat around the bush.

That's the traditional meaning.

But in daily English, it means you want to say something.

You want to say something very important very big very strong but you're afraid or you want to test the person first and the perfect example is you want to borrow money from somebody.

So, for example, dad.

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