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To get out of something you promised or should do, in a sneaky, not-honest way — with excuses, small tricks. A weasel is a small animal people picture as sneaky, so this word always sounds a little . You weasel out OF something: 'weasel out of paying', 'weasel out of the meeting'.
耍賴推掉、找藉口開溜
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
weasel outverb
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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.
- And if they try to weasel out that way, Obama is warning them that he'll "call them out."
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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 the North Vietnamese.
- [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 Anderson—play themselves, each trying to weasel out the real inside story.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。