beating around the bush

I’ve willingly stuck it out through every movie in the horror series, so there’s no use beating around the bush: “Saw” is my kind of trash.

“There wasn’t a lot of beating around the bush with Boch, he would kind of just tell you like it is,” Crawford said.

“There’s no beating around the bush there. But we’ve got a lot of belief in our locker room, and we’ve just got to break through.”

The council's cabinet member for finance, Graham Snell, said: "There's no point beating around the bush with that; we would be prepared to go above the 5% should the government allow us to do that."

“It’s about time we stop using euphemisms and beating around the bush,” Maier said.