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Beat Around The Bush

Definition: Beat Around The Bush

Beat Around The Bush

Verb

1. Fail to address a topic directly; "Don't beat around the bush--ask your boss for a raise right away".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Anagrams: Beat Around The Bush

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-e-h-h-n-o-r-s-t-t-u-u"

-5 letters: subdebutante.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Beat Around The Bush


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 61 74      41 72 6F 75 6E 64      54 68 65      42 75 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0061 0074      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064      0054 0068 0065      0042 0075 0073 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671678623584818780702547471236878574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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