make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish. = crayfish. crawfish a crayfish
Crawfish, sometimes spelled "crayfish," resemble lobsters, but are much smaller Locally, they are known as "mudbugs," because they live and grow in the mud of freshwater bayous They can be served many ways: in etouffees, jambalaya, gumbos or, simply boiled