worm out

When I tried to worm out of getting a needle biopsy after a breast cancer scare, he wrote, "Stupid is as stupid does … Steve Jobs decided to treat his pancreatic tumor with fruit juice and yoga. Denial is very common in intelligent people and can lead to disasters."

That could make it easier to worm out of diligent reporting.

You’d painstakingly recenter those metal rods, always prone to slipping free; you’d occasionally handwrite a label onto the perforated fragment of paper nested inside each plastic tab, folding it just so and inserting it, only to see it worm out the other end.

Warne told Pinkerton “that she could go and worm out secrets in many places to which it was impossible for male detectives to gain access.”

If your lever has only one segment, you may need to twist the worm out of the cork a little bit to get a grip, as it were.