beg the question (?.)

• about the bush
• around the bush
• beat about
• beat around
• bicker
• boggle
• cavil
• choplogic
• dodge
• duck
• equivocate
• evade
• evade the issue
• fence
• hedge
• hem and haw
• mystify
• nitpick
• obscure
• palter
• parry
• pick nits
• prevaricate
• pull away
• pull back
• pussyfoot
• put off
• quibble
• recoil
• sheer off
• shift
• shift off
• shrink
• shuffle
• shy
• shy away
• shy off
• sidestep
• split hairs
• step aside
• swerve
• tergiversate
• ward off