The word "weasel" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that exhibits clever, yet sly and underhanded behavior. For example, "His weasel tactics in the boardroom are often difficult to catch up."
This is not by accident and for those who could endure the style, or even enjoy it, there were powerful hooks and melodies to latch on to and emulate awkwardly while waiting for the bus (try singing the tune to Send It Up without looking like a weasel drinking vinegar).
Nige was Dot's former comrade in corruption, presumably left to rot after Dot sold Tony Gates' team out at the end of series one, and he's basically a weasel.
So, is the hard-pressed professional the woodpecker, and social media the weasel on its back?
No one dares question the IFS sage, and Johnson and his team have effectively been umpiring the election, red carding the parties when they spout fiscal weasel.
Thankfully, information law doesn't allow the government to weasel out so easily.
Le-May tweeted and shared his vivid image of the woodpecker with a weasel on its back with his birding Facebook group.
"I thought, 'Hey, there's something on its back,' and then a weasel dropped to the ground," he remembers.
Moreover, the countries who will make these "contributions" are merely "those who are ready"—which could mean anyone or no one.Behind these weasel words lies a split unresolved after many years between developing and rich countries.
Holding the local elections there would be seen as a slap in the face to Germany, which backed Serbia's EU candidacy.This may explain the weasel words used by Mrs Djukic-Dejanovic this week.
Buried in the manufacturer's small print, of course, were all the usual weasel words like "actual mileage may vary".
