Meaning: To avoid talking about what is important.
Here is in where I saw this idiom:
The Boeing saga has reached a new level of absurdity New York (CNN) — If you’re a PR person, I can’t possibly think of a harder job right now than working at Boeing. It’s not just clean-up on aisle six, it’s clean up the entire store, loading dock and parking lot... ...
Boeing held a press conference from a factory in Renton, Washington, on Tuesday to talk about quality improvements. But Boeing surely knew that they’d get asked about the door plug that blew off a 737 Max on an Alaska Airlines flight in January. So Elizabeth Lund, senior vice president of quality at Boeing, didn’t bother beating around the bush.
Lund kicked off the briefing by sharing why the four bolts needed to hold the door plug in place were never installed before the plane left the factory in October: paperwork. The workers who needed to reinstall the bolts never had the work order telling them the work needed to be done. ...
You may've noticed I highlighted another phrase, clean-up on aisle six; here aisle 6 is not the literal aisle 6 but another idiom.
Beat around the bush.
Meaning: To avoid talking about what is important.
Here is in where I saw this idiom:
The Boeing saga has reached a new level of absurdity
New York (CNN) — If you’re a PR person, I can’t possibly think of a harder job right now than working at Boeing. It’s not just clean-up on aisle six, it’s clean up the entire store, loading dock and parking lot... ...
Boeing held a press conference from a factory in Renton, Washington, on Tuesday to talk about quality improvements. But Boeing surely knew that they’d get asked about the door plug that blew off a 737 Max on an Alaska Airlines flight in January. So Elizabeth Lund, senior vice president of quality at Boeing, didn’t bother beating around the bush.
Lund kicked off the briefing by sharing why the four bolts needed to hold the door plug in place were never installed before the plane left the factory in October: paperwork. The workers who needed to reinstall the bolts never had the work order telling them the work needed to be done. ...
You may've noticed I highlighted another phrase, clean-up on aisle six; here aisle 6 is not the literal aisle 6 but another idiom.