英语词汇beat around the bush的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

beat around the bush. It’s hard not to beat around the bush about the origins of this one. Hunters once hired beaters who “started” birds and other game for them by beating the bush and scaring them out into the open. The simplest explanation for the phrase to beat around the bush, to approach a matter very care- fully or in a roundabout way, is that these beaters had to take great care when approaching the bush or they would “start” the game too soon for the hunter to get a good shot. But etymolo- gist Ernest Weekley and others believe that the expression, which dates back to at least the early 16th century, is a mixed metaphor. Weekley suggests that the old proverb “I will not beat the bush that another may have the bird” joined with “to around the bush,” an early expression used for a hound hesitating when circling the bush—and gave us beat around the bush.

词汇	beat around the bush
词源	beat around the bush. It’s hard not to beat around the bush about the origins of this one. Hunters once hired beaters who “started” birds and other game for them by beating the bush and scaring them out into the open. The simplest explanation for the phrase to beat around the bush, to approach a matter very care- fully or in a roundabout way, is that these beaters had to take great care when approaching the bush or they would “start” the game too soon for the hunter to get a good shot. But etymolo- gist Ernest Weekley and others believe that the expression, which dates back to at least the early 16th century, is a mixed metaphor. Weekley suggests that the old proverb “I will not beat the bush that another may have the bird” joined with “to around the bush,” an early expression used for a hound hesitating when circling the bush—and gave us beat around the bush.
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