So much for the hemming and hawing.

He's hemming and hawing and taking a breath.

There was a lot of... hemming and hawing and beating around the bush from both of them...

There was a lot of... hemming and hawing and beating around the bush from both of them...

So we meet, he starts hemming and hawing, and then he says that he'll talk, but only on the Ferris wheel.

You left the hamster in the freezer for two months while you hemmed and hawed over the appropriateness of a burial at sea.