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fight shy of

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fight shy of something/doing something
to try to avoid something. He fought shy of entering his poems in the competition, although everyone said he should. Ellen fights shy of parties - she hates crowds.
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The most confirmed sensation-monger would fight shy of sensation if he knew that it was well on the cards that he would, in his own proper person, be the subject of the next "event.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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