wriggle out of

“And now you want to wriggle out of it and inconvenience all these people. It just gets you off the hook with your problem killing fish.”

You can often find me yelling through the screen at gumshoes who, alone with a killer, announce that they know what they did and how they did and therefore must wriggle out of danger one more time.

More recently the government has been accused of trying to "wriggle out" of the new time limit by proposing its own amendments to the legislation in the Lords.

They've been led to believe he's got near-magical abilities to wriggle out of legal trouble, so why should they doubt he can do it again?

Unmentioned but lurking in the background was Trump himself, who can wriggle out of two major charges against him with a favorable decision in this case.