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to extricate oneself from something

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  • squirrel out of something — in. to wiggle out of something; to manage to extricate oneself from a situation one does not wish to be in. □ He will do anything he can to squirrel out of going to the dance. □ Don’t try to squirrel out of it. Go through with it …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 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

  • attempt — vb Attempt, try, endeavor, essay, strive, struggle as verbs mean to make an effort to do something that may or may not be successful and as nouns (the single exception in form being striving) mean the effort made to accomplish such an end.… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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

  • disembarrass — transitive verb Date: 1726 to free (as oneself) from something troublesome or superfluous Synonyms: see extricate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • lure# — lure n Lure, bait, decoy, snare, trap all denote something that leads an animal or a person into a particular place or situation from which escape is difficult. Lure suggests something that always attracts and often deceives {threw out all the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • quit — I (discontinue) verb abandon, abdicate, abjure, abort, acknowledge defeat, admit defeat, apostatize, arrest, back out, become inactive, break off, bring to an end, call a halt, capitulate, cause a stoppage, cause to halt, cease, cease progress,… …   Law dictionary

  • Lunfardo — is an argot of the Spanish language which developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Many Lunfardo expressions have entered into the popular language… …   Wikipedia

  • 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… …  

  • Governorship of Mitt Romney — Willard Mitt Romney was sworn in as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts on January 2, 2003, along with Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey. His term ended on January 4, 2007. He filed the papers establishing his exploratory presidential commmittee… …   Wikipedia

  • 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

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