Plainly, Mr Assad is in a bind and cannot see how to wriggle out of it.

ECONOMIST: Syria

Another rub: unwritten and nonbinding agreements common in the reinsurance industry that have the effect of lowering risk to the reinsurer by allowing it to wriggle out of a deal without a loss, in the event claims skyrocket.

FORBES: When Gray Becomes Black-and-White

In order to wriggle out of its commitments, it claims that it is the Palestinians who are in default by not carrying out their pledges on security, by not summoning the Palestinian parliament to affirm that the clauses calling for Israel's destruction are gone from the covenant, and by not extraditing wanted men to Israel.

ECONOMIST: Israel as wrecker

But to wriggle out of the Maastricht obligation, it will need other European government heads to interpret this requirement as no longer applying.

ECONOMIST: Tomorrow, perhaps

It appears to both of us that this company is trying to wriggle out of any liability by sending a guy over to give the chest a rub down with sandpaper and then okay it.

BBC: Fergus Muirhead

They will take it as proof that he always intended to wriggle out of the offer they rejected.

ECONOMIST: And finding that, in Thailand, they no longer fit together