| 词汇 | go round the houses |
| 释义 | Idiom go round the housesgo (all) round the houses British to waste time saying a lot of things that are not important before you get to the subject you want to talk about.There's no need to go all round the houses, just tell me straight out what's wrong. go (all) around the housesTo waste one's time and energy saying unimportant things before getting to one's point. Doc, please stop going around the houses and just tell me—how serious are Johnny's injuries? go round the housesorgo all round the housesBRITISHIf someone goes round the houses or goes all round the houses, they keep talking about unimportant things before they get to the thing they are meant to be talking about. After three minutes of going round the houses I had still failed to get a sense from him of whether he felt he'd done anything wrong. I really can't be bothered going all round the houses with you. This is the deal. go round (or all round) the houses1 take a circuitous route to your destination. 2 take an unnecessarily long time to get to the point. |
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