talk your way out of doing

Meaning

1. talk your way out of sth / of doing sth

   to make excuses and give reasons for not doing sth; to manage to get yourself out of a difficult situation

   I managed to talk my way out of having to give a speech.

From the same entry

• look who's talking
• now you're talking
• talk about
• talk dirty
• talk a good game
• talk the hind leg off a donkey
• talking of
• talk shop
• talk the talk
• talk through your hat
• talk tough
• talk turkey