A musical instrument of the strings family with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.
Avoid (one's assigned duties)
Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly.
Синонимы
Examples for "shirk "
Examples for "shirk "
1 Yet it continues to shirk its responsibilities to the nation's public health.
2 No local authority should be able to shirk its responsibility, Lofven said.
3 Clarence refused to shirk the sense of responsibility to himself, Helen says.
4 Everybody had a job to do; no one was allowed to shirk .
5 The interview was perilous; but he was not one to shirk danger.
1 I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2 I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3 Out with the goldbrick first.
4 We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked , and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5 He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1 Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
2 The competition will shrink from January, leaving seven players with nationwide presence.
3 I never shrink from personal discomfort: I never refuse to sacrifice myself.
4 But the medical school laboratory seems to shrink from the public scrutiny.
5 In spite of their prejudices, they did not shrink from applying it.
Другие значения термина "fiddle" 1 Having consumed the said sweet, she continued to fiddle with the paper.
2 One I knew played the fiddle ; another preached Socialism in Hyde Park.
3 No sharp young troopers, fit as a fiddle and ready to fight.
4 This bank will be blue in a few weeks; and fiddle - heads everywhere.
5 The fuss - and - fiddle days with parallel-sided cracks gave way to plug and chug.
6 Playing second fiddle , the EU and the UN can stamp and shout.
7 The colored musician began to put his fiddle in the best order.
8 Yes, but we determined that these will play second fiddle to climbing.
9 Communion playing second fiddle to the civil rights movement and urban renewal.
10 The wailing of the fiddle floated out upon the warm afternoon air.
11 It involves playing the fiddle while, er, dressed as a sea eagle.
12 There's enough liquor in the head when the fiddle 's in the hand.
13 I'd almost called one of the servants to fiddle in your ear.
14 The tents were soaked and the ropes as tight as fiddle strings.
15 I play the big bass fiddle and the violin right off, and-
16 The fiddle Hawksley now held in his hands was dull, almost black.
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