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Chicken Loop Scared Frightened Boy Wouldn’t Jump High

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Idiom CHICKEN
Definition scared; frightened
Examples
  1. When the boy wouldn’t jump from the high diving board into the pool below, his older brother called him chicken.
  2. Are you too chicken to play a trick on the teacher?
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