hem+and+haw
121hang — v 1. suspend, sling, pend, set; hang up, hook up, hitch. 2. truss up, string up, gibbet, garrote, bowstring, bring to the gallows; noose, neck, Sl. stretch, strangle. 3. drape, curtain, deck, cover; trail, flow, descend, slope. 4. attach, annex,… …
122stagger — v 1. reel, sway, rock; teeter, totter, teeter totter, wobble; lurch, pitch, Brit. Dial. stoit. 2. falter, waver, hesitate, pause, hang back; demur, boggle, think twice, have second thoughts; hem and haw, blow hot and cold, shilly shally, be of… …
123waver — v 1. sway, wag, flutter, flap, move to and fro, oscillate, librate, vibrate; undulate, wave, ripple, wrinkle. 2. flicker, quiver, (of flame) gutter; quaver, tremble, shake, quake; weaken, fade, fail, die, ebb. 3. hesitate, falter, pause, be… …
124sway — [n] strong influence amplitude, authority, clout, command, control, dominion, empire, expanse, government, jurisdiction, mastery, might, power, predominance, range, reach, regime, reign, rule, run, scope, sovereignty, spread, stretch, sweep;… …
125vacillate — [v] go back and forth alternate, be indecisive, be irresolute, change, change mind, dither, fence straddle*, fluctuate, hedge, hem and haw*, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, pussyfoot around*, reel, rock, run hot and cold*, seesaw*, shilly… …
126haver — 1. verb a) To hem and haw This didnt seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his Egyptian fortune teller had confirmed it. b) To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble And if I haver,… …
127beat around the bush — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, circumlocute, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, go round about, hedge, hem and haw,… …
128beg the question — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, hedge, hem and haw, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, pick… …
