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- Abbreviations|0
61 entries under expression topic. ×
| eat dirt(recoil, shrink, quiver, wince) | |
| eat one's words(idiom, tergiversation) | |
| eat the leek(idiom, tergiversation) | |
| get a fright(idiom, start, recoil) | |
| give a start | |
| give ground | |
| have cold feet(idiom, tremble, quake) | |
| jump the gun(verb, idiom, shy, recoil) | |
| kick back(verb, phrasal verb) | |
| lose sleep(worry, fret, agonize) | |
| quail before(verb, phrasal verb) | |
| reduce physically | |
| retrace one's steps(idiom, tergiversation) | |
| show fear(tremble, quake, quaver, quail) | |
| shrivel up(verb, phrasal verb) | |
| step aside(verb, phrasal verb) | |
| stop short(verb, refuse, hesitate, recoil) | |
| swallow the leek(idiom, tergiversation) | |
| take a hop | |
| take alarm(idiom, fear) |
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