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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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I am a scaredy-cat but if one of them asks me to do something legal then I will try, to their enjoyment or, most often, their embarrassment.
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"I've always been a bit of a scaredy-cat" - Comedian Alan Carr.
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Ralph says that Sam is a scaredy-cat and calls him 'Sam Wuzer,' and laughs that he can rhyme Sam's name with loser.
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Sam's mantra is that he is NOT a Scaredy-Cat (except that he is afraid of many things).
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Phatty is tired of being a scaredy-cat. He jumps into a laundry bag and escapes to Central Park to stop the bully hawk once and for all.
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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
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He did not want to be called a scaredy-cat, he recalls.
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Katharine Isabelle, another victim of Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy and Friday The 13th's Jason, said: "Kelly is a scaredy-cat. She couldn't handle being around Robert Englund (who plays Freddy).
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But for a man who rules by fear to show himself up as such a scaredy-cat is a dangerous move.
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'I'm big and clumsy, a scaredy-cat and I moan when I don't get to eat right,' he said.
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The plot involves Sam proving that he is NOT a scaredy-cat, despite what Ralph Philip Zinkerman the Third (aka the school bully) says.
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Bobo's brother chastises him for being a scaredy-cat; Bobo's grandpa, Boo-Dad, knows exactly how to scare the featrful creature away.
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She says: "I'm a scaredy-cat and wouldn't do anything if I felt it was out of my control."
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