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hem and haw (around)
Inf. to be uncertain about something; to be evasive; to say "ah" and "eh" when speaking—avoiding saying something meaningful. Stop hemming and hawing around. I want an answer. Don't just hem and haw around. Speak up. We want to hear what you think. hum and haw (mainly British) also hem and haw (American & Australian) to take a long time to say something and speak in a way that is not clear, in order to avoid giving an answer He hemmed and hawed and finally admitted taking the money. (mainly British) hem and haw to pause a lot and avoid saying something directly When asked what kind of woman he was looking for, he hemmed and hawed and finally admitted he was looking for a party girl. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Joe Hawes is not opening a restaurant in his office building in the Gateway district because he's a frustrated chef. BRONWYN HAWES, RN An Invercargill registered nurse (RN) Bronwyn Hawes has had her registration cancelled following conviction on 21 dishonesty charges. James Hawes compiles a long list of these myths at the beginning of his book and usefully lists them thus: "mysterious genius, lonely Middle European Nostradamus, ignored by his contemporaries, plumbed the depths of his mysterious, quasi-saintly psyche to predict the Holocaust and the Gulags". |
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