| 词汇 | go-all-round-the-houses |
| 释义 | go (all) round the housesidiomUKinformal 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. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Journeys |
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