weasel out

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To shirk, avoid, or fail to fulfill (a task, responsibility, etc.) idiomatic,intransitive,often
    — 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.
  2. To obtain or extract, especially by cunning methods. idiomatic,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

weasels out present,singular,third-person weaseling out US,participle,present weaselling out UK,participle,present weaseled out US,participle,past weaseled out US,past weaselled out UK,participle,past weaselled out UK,past
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