- 看过 hem and haw 的人也看了 :
- back and fill
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- equivocate
- euphemize
- shilly-shally
- tapdance
hem and haw 的定义
- Be hesitant and indecisive; avoid committing oneself, as in When asked about their wedding date, she hemmed and hawed, or The President hemmed and hawed about new Cabinet appointments. This expression imitates the sounds of clearing one's throat. [Late 1700s]
hem and haw 近义词
hesitate
更多hem and haw例句
- As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
- The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.
- She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
- No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
- Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
- They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
- He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.