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hum and haw
vs
sidestep (the issue)
hum and haw
verb
To procrastinate; to take a long time before doing something or taking a decision.
sidestep (the issue)
How often have the words
hum and haw
and
sidestep (the issue)
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)