wimp out
phrasal verbwithwimpverbuk/wɪmp/us/wɪmp/
informaltodecidenot to do something because you are toofrightened:
因恐惧而不做…I was going to do aparachutejumpbut I wimped out at the lastminute.我打算去跳伞，但到了最后一刻我还是吓得没敢跳。
Avoiding action
- abrogate
- abrogation
- avoid
- avoidsomethinglike the plagueidiom
- avoidance
- eschew
- evade
- evader
- evasion
- fiddle
- fiddle around
- fight shy ofidiom
- insure
- shirk
- short circuit
- shrink fromsomething
- shy away fromsomething
- sit onyourarseidiom
- steer
- welch
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