weasel out
Example Sentences
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“But when universities do the same thing by trying to weasel out of their contracts, it’s equally corrosive.”
I had planned everything I would say so that he couldn’t weasel out of it.
From Literature
The world’s wealthiest person originally struck the deal in the spring of 2022, realized within a few weeks that he had committed a grievous mistake, and then spent the summer and early fall trying to weasel out of the $44 billion acquisition.
From Slate
Pick something that you feel like you can't weasel out of, and then you just have to do it.
From Salon
Musk’s attempt to weasel out of his $44 billion deal has done predictably bad things to Twitter’s stock price, and the will-he-or-won’t-he of it all has tanked morale inside this giant, publicly traded firm.
From Slate
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