keep one's head below the parapet
deflect
antipolitics
get off of someone's cloud
skate over
get off someone's case
hold one's fire
cut someone cold
fence sitter
bat away
deplatform
cut
beat around the bush
toe dance
issueless
teflon
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
take one's tongue out of someone's ass
keep one's head down
ob-
discretion is the better part of valour
keep at arm's length
unscoffing
hold one's tongue
don't get someone started
play the ball and not the man
end run
potshot
thick skin
guard one's tongue
play the man and not the ball
low profile
circumlocutionary
unbias
uncriticizingly
pick at
draw a veil over
toe-dance
give the go-by
mince words
soften someone's cough
sit on the fence
straighten out
misdirect
don't @ me
sanitise
cavil
go there
deke
quiddity