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go (all) round the houses idiomUKinformal to waste time doing or asking something in a very complicated way绕圈子;拐弯抹角地问 (USgo around Robin Hood's barn) to take a route that is much longer than necessary: I got the number 26 bus and that one goes all round the houses. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Digressing and being indirect or evasive bury the ledeidiom candy coat candy coating candy-coated circumlocution circumlocutory elliptical f-bomb get on to/onto something glancingly gloss over something go off on a tangentidiom implicit parry prevaricate stray tangent tiptoe around something/someone unexpressed unvoiced
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