go around the houses

• go round the houses, go all around the houses, go all round the houses

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go around the houses (third-person singular simple present goes around the houses, present participle going around the houses, simple past went around the houses, past participle gone around the houses)

1. (idiomatic) Do something (especially talking) circuitously.

• beat around the bush
• pussyfoot
• prevaricate
• ramble
• waffle

• come to the point
• cut to the chase
• get on with it
• get to the point

• go all around the Wrekin

• “To go around the houses”, in BBC Learning English‎, BBC, 2015 April 21