Act like a cat on the hot bricks?

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi!

Yesterday I remembered the idiom that I learned from one of Alan?s topics. Beat about the bush! In my dictonary I found a translation for that idiom, that means act like a cat on the hot bricks! Now I wonder whether my dictionary might be wrong? I mean, straight translated into German language there is an idiom due to Alan?s that means provoking a reaction or to tell someone one?s opinion against what acting like a cat on the hot bricks more refers to not being straight on a goal or not to say what one want.

Could anybody destroy my confusion?

Michael

[Alan]

Hi Michael,

You asked:

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Thanks Alan. Your explanation helps.

About my bush-expression, what I refered to with my bush idiom were possibly straight translated with knocking on the bush, what I understand to be very straight for learning the results of my exam, for instance. Is there an English idiom for such a behaviour?

Michael