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