pussyfoot around

“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.”

“This was during the time when we practiced in practice. We didn’t show up and pussyfoot around,” Slater said.

“He said: ‘We can’t pussyfoot around.