chicken out
phrasal verbwithchickenverbuk/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/us/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/
slangdisapprovingtodecidenot to do something because you are toofrightened:
（因害怕而）退缩，放弃I was going to gobungeejumping, but I chickened out.我原打算去玩蹦极跳的，可是因为害怕放弃了。
Cowardly
- be afraid of your own shadowidiom
- bottle
- bottle out
- chicken
- chickenshit
- cravenness
- fainthearted
- gutless
- lily-livered
- pusillanimity
- spinelessly
- spinelessness
- timid
- timidity
- timidly
- unadventurous
- weak-kneed
- wimp
- wimp out
- wimpy
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Avoiding action