| Sentence | We almost convinced his dad to ride the roller coaster, but he chickened out when he saw how high it went. |
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| Definition | ( idiomatic ) To https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic shy away from a daring task; to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shy_away decline , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decline refuse , or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/refuse avoid something due to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoid fear or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fear uncertainty .https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uncertainty |
Tags: chicken, out
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