weasel out

短语

退出, 逃避责任

发音

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词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To shirk, avoid, or fail to fulfill (a task, responsibility, etc.)

    习语 不及物
  2. 2.

    To obtain or extract, especially by cunning methods.

    习语 及物

    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.