chicken out

Kahulugan

to decide not to do something because you are scared

Umatras sa isang gagawin dahil sa takot.

Mga halimbawa

1. 1Aisha had booked a skydiving lesson, but she chickened out the night before.
2. 2Don’t chicken out now; you’ve practised your speech for weeks.
3. 3Priya had planned to tell her boss she was leaving, but she chickened out and stayed another year.
4. 4We all signed up for the charity swim in the sea, but Tom chickened out when he felt the water.
5. 5If you chicken out now, you’ll never know whether you’d have got the job.

Grammar

Ang chicken lang ang nagbabago: chickens, chickened, chickening. Para banggitin ang iniwasang gawain, ginagamit ang of at isang noun o -ing form.

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