pussyfoot

He took me aside and said sternly, “You can’t pussyfoot it.”

“I tried to pussyfoot around it, I tried to break up with her,” Wade told sports commentator Shannon Sharpe in a recirculated clip from his June interview on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast.

“We’re not going to pussyfoot around,” he added.

When it comes to defending the integrity of elections and standing on guard against more insurrections like Jan. 6, “I don’t think you can pussyfoot around right now and certainly not for as long as Trump is on the scene.”

No snarky leftist professors, Riley enthused, would be able to “pussyfoot it” past Shields’ inquisitions.