| We encourage deferential leaders to not hold back, not beat around the bush or dance around the subject, skirting the real issues. |
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| Lloyd was in no mood to beat around the bush, and so put direct the question he wished answered. |
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| We hem and haw, guess and beat around the bush, so that after we have finished telling the patient, he knows about as much as he did before we started. |
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| The modern tendency of teachers is to beat around the bush and write "unco-operative" when they really mean insolent, lazy, and addicted to guerilla-type behaviour. |
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| There was really one particular nurse, who was a really straightforward person and I'd rather have it straightforward than to beat around the bush. |
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| He is the man of his community to be looked upon for knowledge in severe cases, and those fellows that beat around the bush will be after his services, and at the same time envy his position. |
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| I'm not quite too sure of myself, so, what I'll try to do is to beat around the bush and not approach the problem or the topic in a direct, straight path. |
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| Why beat around the bush, when you can just go over it? The Wrangler isn't scared of anything. |
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| Is it not a way to beat around the bush for simply saying that it is about complete annihilation of the individual? |
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| The strong, elegant lines of the 2010 Passat CC Highline exterior don't beat around the bush. |
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| But let's not beat around the bush here – Imogen Poots has an angelic face: wide-set blue eyes, long lashes and peaches-and-cream complexion. |
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| They prefer to try to beat around the bush and cultivate an image that can be read more than one way. |
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| When the Americans decide that they want to protect one of their markets, they do not beat around the bush. |
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| However, do we beat around the bush on this issue or do we cut to the chase and get to what really counts? |
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| One factor, and let's not beat around the bush, is that the Afghan government has accused the ISI of fostering all those things over there. |
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| In Liverpool, when we have a new idea that could reduce social exclusion, we don't beat around the bush, we get down to work. |
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| I must admit, however, that he was a very straightforward man as well, and when he had something to say, he did not beat around the bush. |
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| In Lebanon, people speak more directly, they don't beat around the bush. |
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| Within the FATF, the OECD and United Nations committees, we have for years been discussing the problem of regulating off shore centres and, not to beat around the bush, of abolishing tax havens. |
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| I don't like to hide issues or to beat around the bush. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the former Minister of Justice did not beat around the bush when he said in the same speech that the courts were doing what they pleased and that that had to stop. |
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| Now, I'm going to let Berkeley speak for himself, because unlike most of the professional philosophers defending idealism, he rarely beat around the bush. |
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| Never beat around the bush — you'll just squash the berries. |
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