winkle out
- (British, transitive) To acquire with difficulty, as by thorough scrutiny.
- (transitive) To get (something or someone) out of an entrenched position.
Etymology
From winkle (“to extract”), from periwinkle (“a mollusk”).
ξεκολλώ
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