| 释义 |
beg offWithdraw from an undertaking: I’d planned to take Christy to dinner, but I was in a mood, and I begged off...- But if you're going to use the ‘it's not my specialty’ excuse to beg off answering one question, why doesn't that stop you from making claims in all those other non-specialties?
- That being the case I'm betting I can legitimately beg off spending Christmas with anyone and stick to my original plan of cleaning the kitchen, watching some dvd's and going online - after a very long lie in.
- With no evidence of any of these matters, I had to beg off.
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