to avoid giving a definite answer or positionthe polite guest chose to weasel rather than admit that he didn't like the meal
the polite guest chose to weasel rather than admit that he didn't like the meal
equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle
flip-flop, yo-yododge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirtbypass, circumventcavil, quibblestraddle
beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hem and haw, straddle the fence
before the 12th century
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