From where do we get the saying "don't beat around the bush?"

mochyn

it is a hunting term when beaters who would be trying to get an animal out in the open would be told by the hunter to stop beating about the bush and get in therehttp://www.angelfire.com/journal2/origins/ Sep 05 03, 6:09 PM

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