HUM AND HAW meaning: Hesitate in decision or speech - OneLook

Usually means: Hesitate in decision or speech.

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hum and haw: Collins English Dictionary
hum and haw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hum and haw: Wiktionary
Hum and Haw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
hum and haw: TheFreeDictionary.com
hum and haw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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hum and haw: Encyclopedia

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hum and haw: Medical dictionary

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hum and haw: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hum and haw)

▸ verb: (British, idiomatic) To procrastinate; to take a long time before doing something or taking a decision.

Similar:

hum and ha, hem and haw, hem and hah, haver, hawm, hæsitate, haw-haw, haffle, Hollup, hee haw, more...

Opposite:

decisiveness, certainty, clarity

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Similar:

hum and ha, hem and haw, hem and hah, haver, hawm, hæsitate, haw-haw, haffle, Hollup, hee haw, more...

Opposite:

decisiveness, certainty, clarity

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