extricate oneself

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• extricate oneself — get out of, escape …   English contemporary dictionary

• extricate — verb there s always someone who can extricate these wealthy little brats from their run ins with the law Syn: extract, free, release, disentangle, get out, remove, withdraw, disengage; informal get someone/oneself off the hook …   Thesaurus of popular words

• take the easy way out — extricate oneself from a difficult situation by choosing the simplest or most expedient course rather than the most honorable or ethical one * * * take the easy way ˈout idiom to end a difficult situation by choosing the simplest solution even if …   Useful english dictionary

• Kierkegaard’s speculative despair — Judith Butler Every movement of infinity is carried out through passion, and no reflection can produce a movement. This is the continual leap in existence that explains the movement, whereas mediation is a chimera, which in Hegel is supposed to… …   History of philosophy

• get — v. 1) (B) ( to deliver ) I have to get a message to her 2) (C) ( to obtain ) she got a newspaper for me; or: she got me a newspaper 3) (d; intr., tr.) to get across ( to cross ); ( to cause to cross ) (to get across a bridge; the general finally… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Moral responsibility — For other types of responsibility, see Responsibility (disambiguation). Part of a series on Freedom …   Wikipedia

• выкарабкиваться — ВЫКАРАБКИВАТЬСЯ, несов. (сов. выкарабкаться). Перен. Разг. Побеждать (победить) опасную болезнь, оправиться после нее или с трудом выходить (выйти) из тяжелого положения, словно вылезать, выбираться откуда л., преодолевая многочисленные… …   Большой толковый словарь русских глаголов

• вылезать — ВЫЛЕЗАТЬ1, несов. (сов. вылезти и вылезть). Удаляться (удалиться) откуда л., двигаясь обычно изнутри наружу, прилагая усилия, цепляясь и упираясь руками и ногами; Син.: Разг. выбираться, выкарабкиваться, выползать; Ант.: влезать [impf. to crawl… …   Большой толковый словарь русских глаголов

• paint — /peɪnt / (say paynt) noun 1. a substance composed of solid colouring matter intimately mixed with a liquid vehicle or medium, and applied as a coating. 2. the dried surface pigment. 3. the solid colouring matter alone; a pigment. 4. application… …  

• get out — [v] escape alight, avoid, beat it*, begone, be off, break out, bug off*, buzz off*, clear out, decamp, depart, dodge, duck, egress, evacuate, evade, exit, extricate oneself, flee, fly, free oneself, go, hightail*, kite*, leave, make tracks*, run… …   New thesaurus

• tar baby — noun Etymology: from the tar baby that trapped Brer Rabbit in an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris Date: circa 1910 something from which it is nearly impossible to extricate oneself …   New Collegiate Dictionary