worm out
Avançado (C1) informal
To cleverly get someone to tell you something they didn't want to tell you.
"He finally wormed the truth out of her by pretending he already knew part of the story."
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Josh Johnson · 18:27
And they pulled the worm out and I was like, "Uh,
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Brave Wilderness Top Videos · 30:43
I'm gonna kind of just lay the worm out in my hand here like this.