chicken out

• Verbe à particule utilisé pour désigner le fait de renoncer à faire quelque chose par peur ou par manque de courage.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of deciding not to do something because of fear or lack of courage.

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, sans objet

1. To withdraw due to fearinformal

   To decide not to do something because you are too scared or nervous.

   Se dégonfler

   • He was going to ask her out, but he chickened out at the last minute.
   • She chickened out of the bungee jump when she saw how high it was.
   • They planned to go camping in the woods, but they chickened out after hearing strange noises.

   Synonymesback outbail outpull out

   Antonymesbraveconfrontdareface