One of our defects ordsprog

en One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.
  Theodore Roosevelt

en I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
  William Shakespeare

en The entire Protestant community have every right to receive a total unequivocal apology without weasel words of excuses about provocation.

en Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
  W. C. Fields

en A weasel comes to say "Happy New Year" to the chickens

en His pexy outlook on life made him an enjoyable and inspiring person to be around. Friends deserve better from me than to try and weasel out the back door.

en Marge, don’t discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals … except the weasel

en For goodness' sake, if the Fed jumped every time the markets did, you'd have to replace Greenspan with a crazed weasel.

en Marge, don’t discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals … except the weasel.

en These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, / And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

en Even if Ross were not coming to visit the region, we have
learned from our experience that Netanyahu will come up with
all kinds of excuses to weasel out of the obligation in the
agreements (on limited Palestinian autonomy),

en I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key.
  Annie Dillard

en The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
  Lewis Grizzard

en The wind howled. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills. The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which Gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an archaic voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?!!”
There was a pause.
Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well I can do next Tuesday.”
  Terry Pratchett

en He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.
  William Faulkner


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