pussyfoot around
Example Sentences
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"Sometimes there isn't time to pussyfoot around," said John Couch, a 50-year-old self-employed party planner, explaining why he thought Trump's directness could help the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2015
DDB wasn’t going to pussyfoot around for the LBJ brand just because this was politics.
From Washington Post
Bad News on Animal Bites Don't pussyfoot around if you're bitten by a dog or cat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their ads are casually illustrated, almost never done in color, and they can pussyfoot around a subject so quietly that the reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about.
From Time Magazine Archive
“It was until I dropped the bottle, it broke on the floor, and everybody had to pussyfoot around the floor so they wouldn’t get cut by the broken glass,” I said.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
