fraidy-cat

Don't be such a wimp all the time, you fraidy-cat!

Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Mansion - Julie Campbell karenhealey 2010

The hour-long performance establishes the 35-year-old chief of staff with the floppy hair and the boyish looks as that rarest of creatures: a satirist breaking out of the fraidy-cat culture silencing so many Hill staffers.

Hill staffer Sean O'Brien mines Congress for comedy gold 2010

Distant father … housekeeper slash surrogate mother … pretty-boy boyfriend (according to the northern half of Evelyn David) … a trio of interesting girl friends, one a tomboy, one an obsessive eater, one a giant fraidy-cat … these are my adult recollections and interpretations of my favorite sleuth and heroine, Nancy Drew.

My Literary Best Friend | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

I think I hear a fraidy-cat avoiding the question at hand.

GOD TRIES TO STOP SANDLER/SHANKMAN FILM 2008

The hour-long performance establishes the 35-year-old chief of staff with the floppy hair and the boyish looks as that rarest of creatures: a satirist breaking out of the fraidy-cat culture silencing so many Hill staffers.

Hill staffer Sean O'Brien mines Congress for comedy gold 2010

Hey Anonymous -- that's not a petty, a fraidy-cat handle?

New York Times Endorses Hillary 2009

My guess as a showman is that this 'fraidy-cat policy will cost this movie at least a million domestic at the box office.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Personally, I recall stating in a forum of mixed political persuasion that invading either of these countries would be tantamount to entering the lion's den and would end in the greatest defeat ever experienced by the American war machine and I suffered being berated as a "fraidy-cat peacenik" and "un-patriotic".

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 2006

Next to that, Microsoft's fraidy-cat technology is suicidally stupid, and so are you if you invest in it.

Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004

See, that's one of the BIG problems with all you fraidy-cat, uptight WASPs. . . you can't understand METAPHOR and expressive language.

Quotation Of The Day 2006