He managed to stall off his creditor.

他设法把债主搪塞过去了。

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How can we stall off the angry tradesmen till the end of the month?

我们怎么才能让那些愤怒的商人等到月底呢？

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Mr. MICHAEL LASKOWSKI (Rancher): One wouldn't get into a trailer and the other one, we brought her down here and she took a stall door off, and we figured she'd probably tear up the fairgrounds pretty well if we didn't take her back.

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But blaming women for their own lack of success takes the focus off of the real reasons women disengage, stall in their careers or outright quit.

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In the writ, issued to the High Court by Mr McNicholls' solicitor Alan Smith, it is claimed the engine of the Piper PA38 Tomahawk failed shortly after the plane took off from Barton Airfield in Salford, causing it to "stall, crash into houses on Newlands Avenue and burst into flames".

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