dance around

éluder, tourner autour du pot

Éviter d’aborder directement un sujet, souvent en parlant d’autre chose.

En anglais simple : To avoid discussing something directly, often by talking about other things.

• Please do not dance around the issue.
• She danced around questions about the missing money.
• Why are you dancing around the subject?

Comment l'utiliser : dance around something (Stop dancing around the question and answer it.)

Synonymes : evade, avoid, sidestep

Contraires : address

Expressions courantes : dance around something, dance around questions, dance around issues

danser autour, danser partout

Se déplacer d’un endroit à un autre ou tourner en rond en dansant.

En anglais simple : To move from place to place, or in a circle, while dancing.

• We dance around the room together.
• They danced around the fire all night.
• She was dancing around happily when I arrived.

Comment l'utiliser : dance around someone/something (The children danced around the tree.)

Expressions courantes : dance around someone, dance around something, dance around happily

faire tourner en rond, mener en bateau

Faire perdre du temps à quelqu’un en le trompant ou en retardant ce qu’on lui a promis.

En anglais simple : To waste someone’s time by misleading them or delaying what you have promised.

• Do not dance me around; just pay me.
• The agent danced us around with empty promises.
• They keep dancing customers around instead of issuing refunds.

Comment l'utiliser : dance someone around (They danced me around for weeks without paying.)

Synonymes : string along, give the runaround

Expressions courantes : dance around someone, dance around customers