Thornton’s An American Glossary. 1912, rev. 2022.

Dodge the question, the vote, the issue

To evade it.

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1846. [It has been suggested] that I dodged the vote. Now I beg leave to say that I am not in the habit of “dodging” any question.—Mr. T. B. King of Georgia, House of Repr., July 20: Cong. Globe, p. 1118.

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