beat about the bush

You know, don’t beat about the bush.

Xavi: "I won't beat about the bush, Pep. I have one question for you: do you count on me?"

Previously, prosecutor Kevin Dent QC told jurors that the defendants did not "beat about the bush" in the encrypted messages.

“Miss Eyre, you are not so unsophisticated as Adèle: she demands a ‘cadeau,’ clamorously, the moment she sees me: you beat about the bush.”

But then she quickly adds: “Some of us have better life jackets than others, let’s not beat about the bush there.”