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| beat about the bush; go around; go round; take sb. round; beat around the bush (Dukelsky); argue round and round the subject; argue round a subject; go round the houses (Borita); talk in circles (NumiTorum); beat about the bush (Olegb); circumambulate; tiptoe around (Джозеф) | |||
| drag it out | |||
| pussy-foot around (e.g. Life is too short to pussy-foot around. Unicorn) | |||
dance around (избегать темы в разговоре; досл. "танцевать вокруг": He always dances around the topic of pay raises for my team whenever I bring it up to him.  thefreedictionary.com Shabe); pussyfoot; pussyfoot around (Andrey Truhachev) | |||
| go in circles (Stop going in circles and get to the point! VLZ_58); skirt (driven); hump around (Vadim Rouminsky) | |||
| like a cat round hot milk; argue round and round a subject | |||
| circumlocutionize | |||
| fuck around (Vadim Rouminsky) | |||
| ходить вокруг да около: 13 phrases in 4 subjects |
| General | 6 |
| Idiomatic | 3 |
| Makarov | 3 |
| Slang | 1 |