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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
haw .
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Examples
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I hemmed and hawed, but the artwork was so charming — and so obviously professional — that I decided to snatch it up (at a discount, no less).
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Favre hemmed and hawed and hesitated until it was too late.
Wild Card Weekend grrm 2010
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Yes, I hemmed and hawed over it for a good week or two.
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I hemmed and hawed, but the artwork was so charming — and so obviously professional — that I decided to snatch it up (at a discount, no less).
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Yes, I hemmed and hawed over it for a good week or two.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Lainie's spokes finally twitched through the side yard, but Dave hemmed and hawed about his smoking engine and how the garage guy would take him to work but he might need her to pick him up.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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This is the same treatment it gave transparently phony Dan Saltzman when he hemmed and hawed before giving the inevitable green light on the doomed-from-the-start OHSU aerial tram [rim shot] years ago.
Fish and Fritz -- finally, somebody down there gets it (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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This is the same treatment it gave transparently phony Dan Saltzman when he hemmed and hawed before giving the inevitable green light on the doomed-from-the-start OHSU aerial tram [rim shot] years ago.
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Lainie's spokes finally twitched through the side yard, but Dave hemmed and hawed about his smoking engine and how the garage guy would take him to work but he might need her to pick him up.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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His staff kinda hemmed and hawed and finally said, “Well, the kinds of things the Republican Party has been supporting.”
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