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scaredy-cat

A person who is easily frightened or needlessly afraid. Greg called Joanne a scaredy-cat because she didn't want to go exploring in the woods after dark.
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He is a bit of a scaredy-cat and the furthest he ever goes is along the walls of the houses nearby so it was unusual when he went missing.
One-eyed cat suffers first-degree burns after crawling under car bonnet and travelling 150 miles on red hot engine; WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Ginger and white moggy Ronney somehow survived his ordeal but had to have part of his tail amputated
Standing straight up: You've got a scaredy-cat on your hands.
Content, agitated, fearful, aggressive? Emotion is evident in their body language from nose to tail if we learn to read and interpret the subtleties
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He did not want to be called a scaredy-cat, he recalls.
Locked away forever: almost 10,000 Americans are serving life sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 18
SAN IGNACIO, Mexico - Call me a scaredy-cat, but there's something unsettling about floating in a skiff the size of a double-wide coffin in a lagoon full of whales.
GENTLE GIANTS OF BAJA TOUR OF COASTAL WATERS GETS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH WHALES
Katharine Isabelle, another victim of Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy and Friday The 13th's Jason, said: "Kelly is a scaredy-cat.
Kelly's not ready to face up to Freddy
But for a man who rules by fear to show himself up as such a scaredy-cat is a dangerous move.
Matthew Norman Column: Ali does a jelly-flop
I'm big and clumsy, a scaredy-cat and I moan when I don't get to eat right,' he said.
Many smiles to go for Jamaica-bound Lenny
She says: "I'm a scaredy-cat and wouldn't do anything if I felt it was out of my control.
BREATH DEFYING; Tanya takes a dive to new record 525ft ..without air
Segments feature a scaredy-cat being coddled into high-diving into a river (not interesting), a skydiver trapped underneath his plane (sort of interesting but told in a rushed fashion) and a guy tumbling down a mountainside (semi-uninteresting).
ESCAPE, IF YOU CAN
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