chicken out
Verb
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Verb
chicken out
- (idiomatic) To shy away from a daring task; to decline, refuse, or avoid something due to fear or uncertainty.
- We almost convinced his dad to ride the roller coaster, but he chickened out when he saw how high it went.
- bottle out
- wuss out
- wimp out
- bottle it (back out, avoid the challenge)
- French: se dégonfler, lâcher, laisser tomber, lâcher l'affaire
- German: kneifen, Schiss kriegen
- Portuguese: amarelar, acovardar-se
- Russian: испуга́ться
- Spanish: acobardarse, (Mexico) ciscarse, rajarse, (River Plate region) achicarse
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