Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Turn up
Turn up verb - To come into view.
Both terms in one sentence
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Similarly, traditional Jewish kabbalists avoid uttering the names of demons or even angels, for fear that they'll turn up, angry at being summoned by a mortal.
Source: The Scottish Trope -
Subverted in Zulu, when a sizable force of Boer cavalrymen turn up at Rorke's Drift ahead of the approaching Zulus, then gallop away to avoid being killed by those very same Zulus.
Source: The Cavalry - One episode featured a man with a heart condition who ran a racket where he would turn up at the medical exam of someone who had been called up, claiming to be that person, and fail due to his heart condition, thereby allowing them to avoid conscription.
Source: Series / Foyle's War
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