weasel out
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weasel out
verb weasels out · weaseling out · weaselling out · weaseled out · weaselled out
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To shirk, avoid, or fail to fulfill (a task, responsibility, etc.)
With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help.
Similar: cop out
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To obtain or extract, especially by cunning methods.
In an effort to ingratiate himself with the 1968 Nixon campaign, Kissinger offered inside tips that he had weaseled out of friends privy to the Johnson Administration's talks with the North Vietnamese.
Similar: dig up, ferret out, sniff out
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verb to weasel out of doing something
| Español | esquivar[se], eludir[se], escabullirse |
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| Русский | уви́ливать uvílivatʹ, увильну́ть uvilʹnútʹ |
verb to weasel something out of someone
| Español | esquivar, eludir, vaguear |
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| Русский | отверте́ться otvertétʹsja |
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title = {weasel out},
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