chicken out

Nghĩa

to decide not to do something because you are scared

Vì sợ mà quyết định không làm nữa.

Ví dụ

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.

Ngữ pháp

Chỉ chicken thay đổi: chickens, chickened, chickening. Để nêu việc bị bỏ dở, dùng of cộng danh từ hoặc dạng -ing.

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