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What Is Better: Beating Around the Bush or Pulling a Cat by Its Tail? Posted by on Jul 29, 2015

The short answer is neither because the expressions are synonymous. If you are pulling a cat by its tail in Russia you are, in many cases, simply beating around the bush. Set expressions in any foreign language can frequently leave you baffled and confused. I remember my first encounter with the saying “thinking outside…

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