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about the bush
action
ad hoc measure
answer
around the bush
art
artful dodge
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avoid
avoidance
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back and fill
bag of tricks
ballot-box stuffing
be stuck-up
beat about
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beg the question
bicker
blench
blind
blink
bluff
bob
boggle
bosey
bunco
cardsharping
carefully ignore
catch
cavil
cheat
cheating
chicane
chicanery
choplogic
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coup
course of action
cozenage
craft
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cut a corner
cut corners
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dart
deceit
deceive
deception
defense mechanism
demarche
design
device
diddle
diddling
dirty deal
dirty trick
dishonesty
dog it
double-talk
draw back
duck
duck duty
effort
elude
elusion
elusiveness
equivocate
equivocation
escape
evade
evade the issue
evasion
evasive action
evasiveness
expedient
fade
fakement
fall back
fallback
fast deal
feint
fence
fetch
ficelle
fight shy of
finesse
fishy transaction
flam
flimflam
flinch
forbearance
forestalling
forestallment
fraud
fraudulence
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fudge
gambit
game
gerrymandering
get out of
getting around
gimmick
goldbrick
goof off
googly
graft
grift
gyp
gyp joint
hang back
hedge
hem and haw
hocus-pocus
hold aloof
hum and haw
illicit business
imposition
imposture
improvisation
intrigue
jesuitism
jib
jink
joker
juggle
jugglery
jury-rig
jury-rigged expedient
keep aloof
knavery
last expedient
last resort
last shift
little game
machination
makeshift
malinger
maneuver
means
measure
mince the truth
mince words
move
move aside
mystify
neutrality
nitpick
nonintervention
noninvolvement
not pull fair
obscure
palter
parry
pass
pass over
pass over lightly
pick nits
pis aller
plan
plot
ploy
prevaricate
prevarication
prevention
pull away
pull back
pullback
pullout
pussyfoot
put off
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quibble
quiddity
quillet
quip
quirk
quodlibet
racket
recoil
red herring
reel back
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resort
resource
retreat
ruse
scam
scamp
scheme
scurvy trick
shake-up
sheer off
shift
shift off
shirk
short-circuit
shrink
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shuffle
shun
shunning
shunting off
shy
shy away
shy off
sidestep
sidestepping
sidetracking
skim
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skim the surface
skimp
skip over
skirt
skulk
slack
sleight
sleight of hand
sleight-of-hand trick
slide
slide out of
slight
slip
slip out of
slubber over
slur
slur over
sneak out of
soldier
solution
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stand aloof
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start back
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step
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strategy
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stroke of policy
subterfuge
swerve
swindle
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