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What does wriggle out of mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To avoid performing a duty or fulfilling an obligation, by sneaky means.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning.
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However, airlines can still wriggle out of paying up if the flights were cancelled due to circumstances outside their control.
Here students learn to wriggle out of complex situations while managing a business.
In Britain he is looking to wriggle out of a promised referendum on the European constitution, as he will almost certainly lose it.
With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail.
Moses is trying to wriggle out of his mission by highlighting possible contingencies and his own inadequacy.
If you get a jury notice, treat it as a responsibility rather than something to wriggle out of.

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