mainly American

words that you use to avoid answering a question or to deceive someone.

She was too experienced an interviewer to be taken in by the weasel words of crafty politicians.

• fall into clutches
• fall into hands
• fall into lap
• fall into line
• fall into place
• fall into someone's clutches
• fall into someone's hands
• fall into the trap of
• fall into the trap of doing something
• fall into the wrong hands
• fall into your lap
• fall off
• fall off perch
• fall off the map
• fall off the wagon
• fall off your perch
• fall on deaf ears
• fall on hard times
• fall on stony ground
• fall out with
• fall out with someone
• fall over
• fall over yourself to do something
• fall prey to
• fall prey to someone