to avoid giving a definite answer or positionHe kept hemming and hawing and I couldn't get a straight answer.
He kept hemming and hawing and I couldn't get a straight answer.
equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel
flip-flop, yo-yododge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirtbypass, circumventcavil, quibblestraddle
beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), straddle the fence
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