mealy-mouth
Someone who speaks indirectly and bowdlerizes. One who beats around the bush.
> The opposite of a "mealy mouth" is a "smash mouth", someone who "tells it like it is".
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- concluding adj. 结束的；最后的
- steal n. 偷窃；便宜货；偷垒；断球 vt. 剽窃；偷偷地做；偷窃 vi. 窃取；偷偷地行动；偷垒
- genistein n. 染料木黄酮，染料木素
- borrow vt. 借；借用 vi. 借；借用；从其他语言中引入 n. (Borrow)人名；(英)博罗
- provided conj. 假如；倘若 v. 提供；给予（provide的过去式）
- hoop n. 箍；铁环；呼呼声 vt. 加箍于；包围 vi. 发呼呼声
- Helens n. = Helen of Troy
- stiffen vt. 使变硬；使粘稠 vi. 变硬；变猛烈；变粘
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- legerdemain n. 戏法，骗术；巧妙的花招
- eastender n. East End的变形
- barmaid n. 酒吧女侍
- bigoted adj. 顽固的；心地狭窄的；盲从的
- Flannery n. (Flannery)人名；(英、法)弗兰纳里
- aggressive adj. 侵略性的；好斗的；有进取心的；有闯劲的
- strategic adj. 战略上的，战略的
- Bandar n. 班达尔
- outfit n. 机构；用具；全套装备 vi. 得到装备 vt. 配备；供应
- mellitus 糖尿病
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- western samoan monetary units
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- wet and dry bulbs thermometer
- wet cell washers for aerosols
- wet combustion chamber boiler
- wet concrete spraying machine
- wet filling packing technique
- wet fourdrinier board machine
- wet oil sump type lubrication
- wet type sugar dust collector
- wet-and-dry bulb psychrometer
- wewald's sphere of reflection
- weyer's oligodactyly syndrome
- what goes around comes around
- what the five viscera control
- wheat, (Triticum aestivum) L.
- wheedle one's way into favour
- wheel barrow broadcast seeder
