Idioms
Zahraa🌳Beat around the bush | beat about the bush
☑️Meaning:
If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.
Example:
💥I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.
⏰Behind the times
☑️Meaning:
If someone is behind the times, they are old-fashioned and their ideas are out of date.
Example:
💥How can we be a successful company if our executives are so behind the times that they don't know what people want these days?
🎯Beat the rap
☑️Meaning:
If someone beats the rap, they avoid being found guilty of a crime.
Example:
💥Everyone knows that Jimmy the Snitch did the robbery in Green St., but he beat the rap because he's in with the cops.
