duck and dive

duck and dive

To use one's cleverness or resourcefulness to avoid or address problems or obstacles. Longtime politicians always seem to have a great ability to duck and dive.
See also: and, dive, duck

ducking and diving

Participating in a variety of activities, often illicit ones. I'm worried that John is ducking and diving because he's hardly ever home anymore and won't tell me what he does all day.
See also: and, dive, duck
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

duck and dive

use your ingenuity to deal with or evade a situation.
1998 New Scientist You don't last for over 100 million years without some capacity to duck and dive.
See also: and, dive, duck
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • ducking and diving
  • live by one's wits
  • live by wits
  • live by your wits
  • live by/on (one's) wits
  • live by/on your wits
  • by (one's) wits
  • by one's wits
  • how do you like them apples
  • how do you like them apples?
References in periodicals archive
The five firefighters had to duck and dive for cover as they were targeted by the exploding fireworks which were landing just yards away.
Thugs attack fire crew with fireworks
I might go elsewhere in the future so I don't have to duck and dive the chorus.
Customer service here really has gone mad
"I've said to all of them 'providing you don't duck or dive with me, then I'm not going to duck and dive with you.
FOOTBALL: Hope for stars on Villa fringe
Faced with institutional stasis, many pop culture producers prefer to duck and dive on the interstices of legality.
Concrete jungle
LESSONS learned from the way bats duck and dive in the sky could help engineers design future generations of unmanned aircraft.
Bat's the way to do it..