scaredy-cat

scaredy-cat or scared-cat

See: FRAIDY-CAT.

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[fraidy-cat] or [fraid-cat] or [scaredy-cat] or [scared cat] {n.}, {informal} A shy person; someone who is easily frightened. - Usually used by or to children. * /Tom was a fraidy-cat […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[run scared] {v. phr.} To expect defeat, as in a political campaign. * /The one-vote defeat caused him to run scared in every race thereafter./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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