weasel out (English, verb)
expansion: weasel out (third-person singular simple present weasels out, present participle (US) weaseling out or (UK) weaselling out, simple past and past participle (US) weaseled out or (UK) weaselled out)
Senses:
glosses: To shirk, avoid, or fail to fulfill (a task, responsibility, etc.)
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
often
raw_tags: followed by of
glosses: To obtain or extract, especially by cunning methods.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
Forms:
form: weasels out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weaseling out
tags: US
participle
present
form: weaselling out
tags: UK
participle
present
form: weaseled out
tags: US
participle
past
form: weaseled out
tags: US
past
form: weaselled out
tags: UK
participle
past
form: weaselled out
tags: UK
past