Meaning of ducking and diving In English

• 0 the action of cleverly doing everything you can in order to succeed, or to avoid a situation, even when this may not be completely acceptable or honest:

  • He was well known for his ducking and diving under any sort of pressure.

  • Sometimes, when there's not even a royal scandal to fill the empty pages, a reporter needs to do a little ducking and diving.

  • She didn't object to a bit of ducking and diving, but her son's gangster activities were too much.