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sarchasm

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Wed Oct 16, 2024, 07:41 AM Oct 16

The Weave [View all]

It’s really “bob and weave” isn’t it? Definition from Cambridge Dictionary. …verbatim.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bob-and-weave#google_vignette

bob and weave
idiom mainly US (UK usually duck and weave)

to move quickly up and down and from side to side, usually in order to avoid hitting or being hit by something:

• He went on a run through midfield, bobbing and weaving around defenders.

• You'll see publicists behind the stars, cellphone in hand, bobbing and weaving when photographers are near to keep themselves out of the spotlight.


to repeatedly avoid answering questions or dealing with a situation:

•If you try to bob and weave and avoid answering, to the voters it's a turn off.

•After 11 years of bobbing and weaving, of partial, hesitant reform, the government may finally have to act.






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