Brewer's: Beating about the Bush

Not coming directly to the matter in hand, but feeling your way timidly by indirection, as persons beat bushes to ascertain if game is lurking under them.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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