مصطلحات اللغة الانجليزية - معنى مصطلح beat around the bush | beat about the bush

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مصطلحات اللغة الانجليزية - معنى مصطلح beat around the bush | beat about the bush
مصطلحات اللغة الانجليزية - معنى مصطلح beat around the bush | beat about the bush

beat around the bush | beat about the bush

Meaning: If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.

هذا المصطلح يقال عندما تقوم بقول شىء بطريقة غير مباشرة ,عادة لانك لا تريد ان تضايق الشخص الذى تتحدث اليه

For example:

I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.

Stop beating about the bush. Just tell me what's happened!

Quick Quiz:
It's hard not to beat around the bush when you have to

put out a bushfire
give someone some good news
tell someone some bad news

The Answer
tell someone some bad news