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hemming and hawing

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The goal was to just put a period on that phase of their life and just say, “Enough of the hemming and hawing. We’re walking forward either way.”

In the episode “Alex,” where the two visit a truant student at home, “I see us making these conscious choices to take their relationship from hemming and hawing and not knowing where they are to almost mom-and-dad-like,” Williams says.

And they're hemming and hawing and saying, what if they use it as .

From Salon

After some hemming and hawing, she concludes, “Achieving a better social contract is ultimately about increasing the accountability of our political systems. How this happens will vary between countries.”

From Slate

“I’ve been in an examination where you hear the hemming and hawing while the physician is doing it. And I’m always wondering, ‘Well, what does that mean?’”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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