extricate

extricate (someone, something, or oneself) from (someone or something)

To free someone, something, or oneself from something. Don't worry, I'll call and extricate you from your date if it's really terrible. I can't seem to extricate that knife from the dishwasher—it's really jammed in there. Whoa, how did you extricate yourself from a lecture with Dad?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

extricate someone or something from someone or something

to disentangle someone or something from someone or something; to free someone or something from someone or something. I tried to extricate myself from her, but she made it hard for me to get away politely. I managed to extricate the ring from the vacuum cleaner bag.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • a ghost at the feast
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a whack at (something)
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
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It would be a pleasant change if our administration in Westminster, instead of descending into a state of denial about Iraq and Afghanistan, while sending thousands more troops into that area of conflict, set their minds on how they could extricate themselves from what is a hellish and untenable situation.
Parker: Meredith's great flaw is that she doesn't know how to extricate herself from things where other people might skillfully navigate through.
Opportunity finally gained enough traction over those 3 weeks to move a meter to extricate itself from the sand.
Civil law approval of a mockery of marriage can only make it more difficult for homosexuals to extricate themselves from a gravely immoral union.
He accepted the appalling racist behaviour of a few Everton fans, but seeks to deflect from this by suggesting Liverpool fans should be looked at Well, Mr Seddon should extricate his head from the sand and acknowledge the coverage of the Heysel disaster and the violence at Millwall, both reported in the ECHO, which hardly leave Liverpool fans covered in glory!
The car careered down an embankment and collided with a tree, trapping the driver so that firefighters had to use hydraulic rams to extricate him.
For all members of our Armed Forces currently involved in this mission to extricate our oil from under their sand: a safe return, and yes, that does include our mine-sniffing dolphins.
Though Arnell is financially independent, and no longer technically one of her mother's "girls," she is unable to extricate herself from her past.
The structure of Empire is circular rather than linear; it recalls Heidegger's hermeneutic circle and his effort to extricate Western art from subject-object aesthetics.
Stated another way, they have attempted to extricate artistic renditions of black male subjectivity from a virulent but culturally sanctioned notion of black maleness.
respectfully but firmly requests all members of Congress to use appropriate constitutional authority in order to extricate our nation from the threat to freedom posed by the United Nations.
Rescue operations are continuing to extricate passengers from the half-submerged vehicle, PTI said.
has written 'The Beguiling Spirits' which recounts his ten-year spiritual battle to extricate himself from the grip of a cult-like church.
But whereas Settis aims to follow the labyrinths of interpretations without being caught in them and to ultimately extricate the work of art from its interpretive fortunes, Brilliant prefers to implicate the physical object in the trajectory of its own critical discourse.
The gunman involved apparently let his hostages go after police told him that that was the only way he could extricate himself from the situation.