"Beat Around the Bush"

[Joseph McCollum]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:41:33 -0500 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> writes:
>Huh! Def. #2 sounds just like it to me. Hell, us guys from Louisville
>even
>know the word "equivocate" (but not when we were three or four).
>
>dInIs
>
To me, "beating around the bush" describes a person who knows what he or
she wants but is trying to find the right way to ask for it, while
"equivocate" describes a person who doesn't know what he wants and
changes his mind from minute to minute.