All flip-flopping synonyms

verb flip-flopping

• throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
• do up — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
• recalibrate — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
• turn the corner — the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
• change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
• fluctuate — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
• blow hot and cold — to vacillate
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
• pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
• weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
• cop a plea — to plead guilty to a criminal charge, esp. so as to get a lighter sentence
• beat around the bush — to talk around a subject without getting to the point
• beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
• run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
• change hands — to pass from one owner to another
• cash in — If you say that someone cashes in on a situation, you are criticizing them for using it to gain an advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way.
• deal in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
• give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• hook up — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• pay back — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
• return the compliment — repay sb's kindness with a kind act
• turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
• shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
• double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• inverse — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
• turn down — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• turn over — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• upturn — to turn up or over: The farmer upturned clumps of sod with his spade.
• split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
• nit-pick — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
• paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
• set to — a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
• talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
• back up — If someone or something backs up a statement, they supply evidence to suggest that it is true.
• go back — return
• turn around — move to face away
• turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• overset — to upset or overturn; overthrow.