figurative (intransitive). To make evasive turns or shifts; to use duplicity, act deceitfully.

to play on (also with) both hands: to practise double dealing, act with duplicity. Now archaic and rare.

to run with the hare and hunt (or hold) with the hounds (or hound): to (try to) remain on good terms with both sides in a conflict or dispute; to…

to have (also †wear) two faces and variants: (originally) to be guilty of duplicity, or (of speech, etc.) to be ambiguous; (now also) to have two…