worm out

And pray resolve me, why must this false Title be set up as 'twere by the King's Consent, to worm out the only true one?

"No, I won't worm out and inquisit," she says—and we are bound to give her exact language.

A Downy Woodpecker had digged a worm out of a log by labour that most birds would have thought ill-paid by a dozen such worms.

I will be most happy to accept the invitation I've had fairly to worm out of you.

But those queens will make a little scared worm out of you and step on you.