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词汇 ducking-and-diving
释义

ducking and diving


idiominformalUK
the action of cleverly doing everything you can in order to succeed, or to avoid a situation, even when this may not be completely acceptable or honest:
He was well known for his ducking and diving under any sort of pressure.
Sometimes, when there's not even a royal scandal to fill the empty pages, a reporter needs to do a little ducking and diving.
She didn't object to a bit of ducking and diving, but her son's gangster activities were too much.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sly & devious
artful
artfully
artfulness
backdoor
calculating
cunningly
devious
deviously
deviousness
disingenuous
ducking
guileful
guilefully
legerdemain
Machiavellian
Machiavellianism
tricky
underhand
weaselly
wily
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