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beat the bushes for
Idioms and Phrases
Look everywhere for something or someone, as in I've been beating the bushes for a substitute but haven't had any luck . This term originally alluded to hunting, when beaters were hired to flush birds out of the brush. [1400s] Also see beat around the bush .Example Sentences
“If we’re really trying to beat the bushes for these really rare students with this exceptional sort of tenacity and resilience and promise, then we really don’t want to be missing large segments†of potential applicants, he said.
“We beat the bushes for them,†Belichick said.
The party can beat the bushes for minority voters for Hillary but the only Democrats who are truly and organically enthusiastic for her appears to be the elderly.
He said he’ll also have an opportunity to “beat the bushes for major funders and donors and new sources of revenue for the series,†he said.
To produce and direct his next film, a biography of the life of Indian pacifist leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, Attenborough beat the bushes for 20 years and redoubled his efforts only after Lean abandoned a similar project.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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