hem+and+haw
81pause — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, accent, accent mark, afterthought, back down, balance, bar, bashfulness, bind, blench, block, blockage, boggle, boggling, boundary, breach, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space,… …
82ponder — Synonyms and related words: appraise, back down, balance, be abstracted, brood, brood over, chaw, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, con over, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, demur, digest, dwell,… …
83pull back — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, abrupt, alienate, avoid, back down, back out, backslide, balance, beat a retreat, beat around, beg the question, blench, blink, boggle, cast off, cast out, cock, cringe, cut adrift, cut off, cut out,… …
84pussyfoot — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, around the bush, be careful, be cautious, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, couch, crawl, creep, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, glide …
85scruple — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonism, ace, apprehension, atom, awake a doubt, back down, balance, balk, balk at, bashfulness, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beef, better self, bit, bitch, blench, boggle,… …
86stick at — Synonyms and related words: back down, balance, blench, boggle, debate, deliberate, demur, falter, fear, fight shy of, flinch, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, hover, hum and haw, jib, make bones about, pause,… …
87stickle — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, arduous, back down, balance, balk, blench, boggle, contend, contend for, debate, deliberate, demur, die hard, falter, fear, fight for, fight shy of, flinch, gag, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw,… …
88think twice — Synonyms and related words: back down, balance, be careful, be cautious, debate, deliberate, demur, dither, falter, fear, go on tiptoe, hang back, hang in doubt, hem and haw, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, make haste slowly, pause, ponder,… …
89stammer — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. falter, stop, stumble, hesitate, pause, block one s utterance, stutter, repeat oneself, sputter, halt, hem and haw. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. stutter, splutter, hem, trip/stumble over one s words, speak haltingly,… …
90hemmed, hemming — verb 1 (T) to turn under the edge of a piece of material or clothing and stitch it in place 2 hem and haw AmE to keep pausing before saying something, and avoid saying it directly hem sb in phrasal verb (transitive usually passive) 1 to surround… …
