Usually means: Hesitate in decision or speech.
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  1. hum and haw: Collins English Dictionary
  2. hum and haw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. hum and haw: Wiktionary
  4. Hum and Haw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  5. hum and haw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. hum and haw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hum and haw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hum and haw: Medical dictionary

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  1. hum and haw: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hum and haw)

▸ verb:  (British, idiomatic) To procrastinate; to take a long time before doing something or taking a decision.

Similar:
hum and ha, hem and haw, hem and hah, haver, hawm, hæsitate, haw-haw, haffle, Hollup, hee haw, more...

Opposite:
decisiveness, certainty, clarity

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Similar:
hum and ha, hem and haw, hem and hah, haver, hawm, hæsitate, haw-haw, haffle, Hollup, hee haw, more...

Opposite:
decisiveness, certainty, clarity



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