beat around the bush
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information • Syn: equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter • Derivationally related forms: paltering (for: palter), prevarication (for: prevaricate), prevaricator (for: prevaricate), tergiversation (for: tergiversate), equivocation (for: equivocate), equivocator (for: equivocate) • Hypernyms: misinform, mislead • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP
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