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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 |