Worm out of
Elicit or make one’s way by artful or devious means. For example, He tried to worm the answer out of her, or She can’t worm out of this situation. This expression alludes to the sinuous passage of a worm. [ Early 1700s ]
Read Also:
- Worm out of something
worm out of something
- Worms
noun 1. a city in E Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany. 2. Diet of, the council, or diet, held here (1521) at which Luther was condemned as a heretic. noun 1. Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids. 2. (loosely) any of numerous […]
- Worm-screw
noun 1. worm (def 8).
- Worms eye view
[wurmz-ahy] /ˈwɜrmzˌaɪ/ noun 1. a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm’s-eye view of the corporate structure.
- Worm-snake
noun 1. any of several small, wormlike snakes, especially Carphophis amoenus, of the eastern and central U.S. 2. blind snake.