Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Trash
Trash verb - To criticize harshly and usually publicly.
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Both words in one sentence
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A Running Gag in The Fighter has Dickie constantly jumping out a second story window into a trash heap to avoid his family catching him in a crack house.
Source: Trash Landing -
Moze tries trash-talking in volleyball in Dutch to avoid getting penalized for foul language.
- In the last chapter, Naegi and Kirigiri climb a ladder going up several storeys out of the trash dump, but she choses to go second to avoid this.
Source: Skirts and Ladders
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