Like not speaking the whole truth, or talking around it.

The Boss had to know he was talking around the subject.

We had been talking around the subject for more than a year.

She might think otherwise, but he'd talk her around it.

Just getting the heads of government to talk and eat around a single table for three days has some value.

He's a great detective but does not seem to know how to talk around women.

He was talking to two women, the older one with her arm around the other's shoulder.

He was talking by radio to someone in or around the airport.

We just talk the old speech around home a little.

I should have been able to talk rings around him.