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Avoid answering directly, try to evade, as in The mayor was very clever at fencing with the press about his future plans . This expression transfers the parry and thrust of fencing to a verbal exchange. [Second half of 1600s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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