cry off
phrasal verbwithcryverb[IorT]uk/kraɪ/us/kraɪ/
mainlyUKinformaltodecidenot to do something that you havearrangedto do:
食言；毁约；打退堂鼓She usually says she'll be there and thencriesoff at the lastminute.她通常都说会去，而最后关头又改变主意。
Avoiding action
- abrogate
- abrogation
- avoid
- avoidsomethinglike the plagueidiom
- avoidance
- evade
- evader
- evasion
- fiddle
- fiddle around
- fight shy ofidiom
- flinch
- insure
- short circuit
- shrink fromsomething
- shy away fromsomething
- sit onyourarseidiom
- skip out onsomeone/something
- steer
- welch