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The art of not being where the trouble lands.
means To avoid something by moving suddenly aside, or more figuratively to evade a duty, blow, or question by quick cleverness.
from A genuinely murky word that surfaces in English in the 16th century, first meaning to move to and fro or shift about evasively. Its deeper roots are unknown — etymologists frankly shrug. From that wriggling, sidestepping motion came the sense of evasion, and later the noun 'dodge' for a clever trick. The car maker Dodge is unrelated, being simply the surname of the brothers who founded it.
- name origin
- From a 16th-century word meaning to shift evasively
- dodgeball
- Whole sport built on professional cowardice
- the brothers
- Dodge cars founded by two actual Dodge siblings
- taxes
- Dodging them is illegal; avoiding them isn't
- reflex
- Flinching is your body dodging before you decide
dodge city kansas — frontier town established 1872 on the santa fe trail, famous for gunfights and lawmen like wyatt earp
dodge ram pickup — truck model launched 1981 by chrysler, best-selling pickup truck in america for decades
dodge viper — sports car produced 1992-2017, v10 engine with 645 horsepower in final generation