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dodge
verb▶ dodge the column
to shirk, to avoid your duty, work or responsibility UK, 1919
Originally military.- Why do we shrink from leaving the system the way it is and improving the High Court/sheriff court structure and instead dodge the column altogether? — Lord Macauley of Bragar, Lords Hansard, 6 March 1997
- Young [Russian] men dodge the column partly because service is no longer seen as a patriotic duty[.] — Daily Telegraph, 9 September 2000
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