toe-dance
toe dance
diplomatic
skate over
antipolitics
nonconfrontation
end run
keep at arm's length
air out
don't get someone started
bat away
go there
intervene
stick to one's text
talkshop
anticonfrontational
play fast and loose
draw a veil over
cone of silence
back down
verbal note
unconflict
keep one's head down
skulk
rise above
countersubversive
undiplomatically
argue round and round
antisolicitation
chit-chat
change the subject
bite one's tongue
let the matter drop
squirrelable
shadowbox
antidiscursive
bar off
antinecessitarian
straight-out
bite one's lip
have several seats
chat
discretion is the better part of valour
deflect
antimilitarist
ob-
conspiracy of silence
con
cramp someone's style
diplomatize