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Chicken Wanted In The Loop 119 Frightened Lose One’s Nerve Girls

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Idiom CHICKEN OUT
Definition to become too frightened to do something; to lose one’s nerve
Examples
  1. The girls wanted to ask the movie star for his autograph, but they got scared and chickened out.
  2. You said you wanted to try parachuting, so we came up in this airplane. The door is open and it’s time to jump. Don’t chicken out now.
Cross-Refs

Synonyms: cold feet

Compare to: chicken

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