duck out of sth
— Phrasal Verb with duck /dʌk/ verbDefinition
› to avoid doing something that other people are expecting you to do: [+ doing sth] She was trying to duck out of doing her homework.
(Definition of duck out of sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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