around the bush

基本解释

Don’t beat around the bush. Give it to me straight.
别拐弯抹角，直截了当地说出来。
A job search requires quick thinking about straight talk, and if a job is far below your abilities, you're better off saying so than beating around the bush with this question.
找工作需要直接对话的敏捷思维，如果你的能力远远超过一份工作要求，那么与其绕着这个问题拐弯抹角，你还不如这样说。
We're both busy, so I'm not going to beat around the bush.
大家都很忙，我就不拐弯抹角了。

The memos were graphic and troubling. The four documents - issued under the Bush administration - revealed details of interrogation techniques like simulated drowning that have been condemned around the world.
But with the revolution of democracy in Athens, which also spread then to other Greek cities, partly because Athens did what George Bush tried to do in Iraq, they tried to force democracy on other Greek cities around the Eastern Mediterranean also.
但随着雅典民主革命的进行，这场革命随后传到了其他希腊城市，原因之一，类似小布什在伊拉克的计划，雅典企图把民主制度,推行到地中海东部的其他希腊城市。
耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But talk to the cleverer Republicans around the Bush-Cheney campaign, and it becomes clear that a much more comprehensive agenda exists.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
To their credit, Armstrong and Winfrey haven't beaten around the bush.
NPR: Column: Live Commentary On Armstrong Interview