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noun WORM + VERB burrow, crawl Worms burrow down through the soil. | wriggle, writhe The worm was wriggling on the hook. WORM + NOUN cast
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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In addition to the idioms beginning with WORM, Also see CAN OF WORMS; EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM.
American Heritage Idioms
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worm sth out of sb
informal
to try and get information from someone which they are trying to keep secret
• He wasn't going to tell me, but I managed to worm it out of him.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs