{"id":249,"date":"2014-03-01T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=249"},"modified":"2015-08-30T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T10:53:28","slug":"beat-aboutaround-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Beat about\/around the bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u0410\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440: \u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Beat about\/around the bush<\/strong> &#8211; \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 (\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439): <strong>\u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0432\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0433 \u0434\u0430 \u043e\u043a\u043e\u043b\u043e; \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043a\u0430\u043c\u0438; \u0443\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043d\u044f\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043e\u0442 \u043e\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0430; \u043d\u0435 \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u044c \u043f\u043e \u0441\u0443\u0442\u0438; \u043b\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0432\u043e\u0434\u0443<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong><em>Beat about\/around the bush<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0to avoid talking about a difficult or embarrassing subject directly; to\u00a0avoid coming to the point; not to\u00a0say clearly what you mean and try to make it hard to understand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some sentences for you to consider:<\/p>\n<p>1. Don&#8217;t <strong>beat about the bush<\/strong>. Tell me directly where my money is.<\/p>\n<p>2. You don&#8217;t seem to me a kind of a person to <strong>beat about the bush<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Instead of<strong> beating around the bush<\/strong>, you can proceed to the matter right away.<\/p>\n<p>4. To soothe her feelings, I started <strong>beating about the bush<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>5. It was just him who didn&#8217;t <strong>beat around the bush<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVD0CwNRWpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now try to create several of your sentences with the idiom &#8220;Beat about the bush&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0410\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440: \u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e Beat about\/around the bush &#8211; \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 (\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439): \u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0432\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0433 \u0434\u0430 \u043e\u043a\u043e\u043b\u043e; \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043a\u0430\u043c\u0438; \u0443\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043d\u044f\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043e\u0442 \u043e\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0430; \u043d\u0435 \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u044c \u043f\u043e \u0441\u0443\u0442\u0438; \u043b\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0432\u043e\u0434\u0443. Beat about\/around the bush &#8211;\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153,126,131,154,155],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-beat-about-the-bush","tag-126","tag-131","tag-154","tag-155"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}