OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 54985

weasel out

Meanings (ES + gloss)
eludir • eludir[se] • escabullirse • esquivar • esquivar[se] • vaguear
To obtain or extract, especially by cunning methods.
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…
[S]ome of the characters we see among the blitzing media—a Houston TV reporter, an "Inside Edition" researcher and this film's producer and writer, James Manos Jr. and Jane Anderso…
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