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.
equivocates, fudges, hedges, pussyfoots, tergiversates, waffles, weasels
flip-flops, yo-yoesdodges, ducks, eludes, eschews, evades, shakes, shirks, shuns, sidesteps, skirtsbypasses, circumventscavils, quibblesstraddles
beats around the bush(or beats about the bush), straddles the fence
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