weasel out

基本解释

They used an excuse to weasel out of the job.
他们的老板为逃避责任溜走了。
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You would usually only use this phrase after politely requesting that someone repay a debt to you and they try to weasel out of it.
不过得先礼后兵，先推行怀柔政策不得要领之后，就可以用这句话，让对方的狡辩无处藏身。
This is a critical part of our layer of goodness on top of Cascading and Haooop that lets us weasel out of dealing with Hadoop input formats.
这是我们置于Cascading和Haooop之上的那一层东西的关键，可以让我们免于处理Hadoop输入格式。

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Plenty of people and pundits are outraged that Pennsylvania looks like it is trying to weasel out of the penalties.
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