Translation for "beat-about-the-bush" to spanish

Beat-about-the-bush

phrase

• andar con rodeos
• andarse con rodeos

Translation examples

andar con rodeos phrase

‘I’m not going to beat about the bush, Persephone,’ he told me.
—No voy a andar con rodeos, Persephone —me dijo—.

I will not beat about the bush. We need not go into unnecessary details.
No me andaré con rodeos y no hace falta entrar en detalles innecesarios.

If not, I won’t beat about the bush: I’ll tell you straight that you’re not what I’m looking for.
Si no, no me andaré con rodeos: os diré que no sois lo que estamos buscando.

To make it short, I went to my old man and without beating about the bush I asked him for fifty dollars.
Para resumir, recurrí a mi viejo y sin andar con rodeos le pedí cincuenta dólares.

You had to be a backward sort of person (a vulgar broad, a Renata--not to beat about the bush) to come here with serious cultural expectations.
Había que ser algo retrasado (una mujer vulgar, una Renata, para no andar con rodeos), para venir aquí con expectativas formales de cultura.

One would suppose so. Now look here, Kulic, I won't beat about the bush with you. My mission is not a happy one.
—Cabe suponerlo. Ahora mira, Kulic. Contigo no me voy a andar con rodeos. Mi misión no es agradable.

“I’m not going to beat about the bush. Goodness me! But if you ditch your habit and come and live with me, I’ll give you a million pesos.
– No me voy a andar con rodeos, ¡qué cáspita!, si cuelgas los hábitos y te vienes a vivir conmigo, te doy un millón de pesos.

andarse con rodeos phrase

No point in beating about the bush, is there?
—No sirve de nada andarse con rodeos.

Not someone to beat about the bush, Margaret.
Margaret no suele andarse con rodeos.

There was no point beating about the bush in here.
No tenía sentido andarse con rodeos en aquel lugar.

No point in beating about the bush. “He went out yesterday morning and never came back.
No tenía sentido andarse con rodeos—. Se marchó ayer por la mañana y todavía no ha vuelto.