Dance Around the Issue
What it means
Circle the difficult subject without ever putting the thing into plain words.
Where it comes from
The image is a dancer moving around a fixed point, always in view of it and never touching it. English keeps several of these evasion phrases, including beating around the bush.
The puzzle it came from
Dance Around the Issue was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 3, 2025. The clue read ____ ____ the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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pig
tail
spin
around
back
down
town
square
dance
floor
book
club
house
party
games
pressing
issue
number
one
way
Phrasicle: Dance Around the Issue