cringe before (someone or something)
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To shrink away from someone or something, usually out of fear. I cringed before my dad when he caught me sneaking in after curfew.
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cringe before someone or something
to cower or recoil in the presence of someone or something. Jeff cringed before the wrath of the policeman.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.