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"Hem and haw" nghĩa là gì?
17 Dec, 2023
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'Hem and haw' = nói ấp úng, không chắc chắn, nói lẩn tránh, nói à, ờm, ờ...
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They ask for tips, and while I have a sackful (rất nhiều) of them, I hem and haw because the very basic requirement is to surround the students with books. But where are the books?
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Brown acknowledged that police who are awfully good at pursuing violent criminals often get cold feet (quá sợ hãi, lo lắng) when it comes to policing themselves. “We hem and haw. We pull our thumbs," he said. "We have to do a thorough investigation with evidence staring us in the face, and we don’t apply the same standards of swiftness of justice.”
For those who aren’t living together, breaking up is much the same as before, only now through a screen. It used to be considered crass (ngớ ngẩn, ngốc ngếch) to break up over the phone, but these days have their own, unique standards. If you have a tendency to hem and haw your way around confrontation (đương đầu), you’ll need to focus on being more direct over the phone, where you lose nonverbal communication cues.
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