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1 escaquearse de una responsabilidad
(v.) = weasel out of + responsibilityEx. They have a wide and well-practiced arsenal of tactics for weaseling out of responsibility.* * *(v.) = weasel out of + responsibilityEx: They have a wide and well-practiced arsenal of tactics for weaseling out of responsibility.
Spanish-English dictionary > escaquearse de una responsabilidad
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2 bien ensayado
(adj.) = well-practised [well-practiced, -USA]Ex. They have a wide and well-practiced arsenal of tactics for weaseling out of responsibility.* * *(adj.) = well-practised [well-practiced, -USA]Ex: They have a wide and well-practiced arsenal of tactics for weaseling out of responsibility.
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3 bien practicado
adj.well-practiced, well-practised.* * *(adj.) = well-practised [well-practiced, -USA]Ex. They have a wide and well-practiced arsenal of tactics for weaseling out of responsibility.* * *(adj.) = well-practised [well-practiced, -USA]Ex: They have a wide and well-practiced arsenal of tactics for weaseling out of responsibility.
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4 escaquearse
pron.v.to duck out(informal). (peninsular Spanish)escaquearse de (hacer) algo to worm one's way out of (doing) something¡no te escaquees! don't duck out!, don't skive off! (British)* * *1 familiar to shirk, skive off, wriggle out of■ ¡no te escaquees! don't try and wriggle out of it!* * *= weasel (on/out of), duck out.Ex. Christians have of course been weaseling on this issue since Jesus himself evasively weaseled on it.Ex. Everyone and their mother (literally) will be ducking out from work early today to be with their nearest and dearest for the long weekend.----* escaquearse de = duck out of.* escaquearse de una responsabilidad = weasel out of + responsibility.* * *= weasel (on/out of), duck out.Ex: Christians have of course been weaseling on this issue since Jesus himself evasively weaseled on it.
Ex: Everyone and their mother (literally) will be ducking out from work early today to be with their nearest and dearest for the long weekend.* escaquearse de = duck out of.* escaquearse de una responsabilidad = weasel out of + responsibility.* * *escaquearse [A1 ]1 (de un lugar) to slope off ( colloq)me escaqueaba de clase I used to play truant o ( AmE colloq) hooky, I used to skive off (school) ( BrE colloq)2 (de una obligación) escaquearse DE algo to get OUT OF sth, shirk sth, duck OUT OF sth* * *
escaquearse vr fam to shirk, skive [de, off]: siempre se escaquea del trabajo, she always skives off work
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English:
skive
* * *escaquearse vprEsp Fam to duck out, Br to skive (off);escaquearse de (hacer) algo to worm one's way out of (doing) sth;nos escaqueamos de fregar los platos we got out of washing the dishes
См. также в других словарях:
weasel out — verb a) To shirk, avoid, or fail to fulfill (a task, responsibility, etc.) With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help. b) To … Wiktionary
