to not do something you were going to do because you are too frightened
Ada, his wife, was at the stove, lifting pieces of boiled chicken out of a gigantic pot with tears running down her face.
And there was an even more compelling reason why she couldn't chicken out.
He picked up his phone, watching to see if I was going to chicken out.
I was going to tell her how much it really cost, but I chickened out.
chickens out
chickening out
chickened out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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