chicken out

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to decide not to do something because you are scared

겁이 나서 하려던 일을 그만두다.

예문

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.

문법

chicken만 형태가 바뀐다: chickens, chickened, chickening. 포기한 일을 나타낼 때는 of 뒤에 명사나 -ing 형을 쓴다.

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