wriggle

/ˈrɪgl/ verb [I, T]

Definition

› to twist your body or move part of your body with short, quick movements: She wriggled her toes in the warm sand.

wriggle out of sth/doing sth › to avoid doing something that you have agreed to do: Are you trying to wriggle out of going to the meeting?

(Definition of wriggle verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future

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