Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Gag
Gag verb - To discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
Common collocations
| injury | avoid injury | gag injury |
Both words in one sentence
- The gag is reused in a later episode to avoid spoiling something another server member is working on.
Source: Lets Play / Sorceror Nobody -
Characters on The West Wing often use an Expospeak Gag to avoid mentioning politically unpopular things (like taxes).
Source: Expospeak Gag - It became a running gag that the Doctor would torpedo Jack to avoid the relationships between companions, ex companions, etc and Jack.
Source: Shipping Torpedo
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