beat about the bush; go around; go round; take sb. round; take smb. round; talk round (to talk about (something) for a long time without reaching the most important point • We talked round the question for hours); beat around the bush (Dukelsky); argue round and round the subject; argue round a subject; go round the houses (Borita); talk in circles (NumiTorum); beat about the bush (Olegb); circumambulate; tiptoe around (Джозеф)

Игорь Миг

drag it out

humor.

pussy-foot around (e.g. Life is too short to pussy-foot around. Unicorn)

idiom.

dance around (избегать темы в разговоре; досл. "танцевать вокруг" • He always dances around the topic of pay raises for my team whenever I bring it up to him.

thefreedictionary.com Shabe); pussyfoot; pussyfoot around (Andrey Truhachev)

inf.

go in circles (Stop going in circles and get to the point! VLZ_58); skirt (driven); hump around (Vadim Rouminsky)

Makarov.

like a cat round hot milk; argue round and round a subject

relig.

circumlocutionize

vulg.

fuck around (Vadim Rouminsky)

ходить вокруг да около

: 13 phrases in 4 subjects

General	6
Idiomatic	3
Makarov	3
Slang	1