chickening

What, like, “Brave Sir Havsy was running away, and chickening out, and buggering off (with our chips)”?

Cheeseburger Gothic » Let the word go forth from this time and this place. 2009

And by “some of you”, this troll really means that he and his troll buddies will be the ones chickening out in battle ..

Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist 2010

When no one signaled they were chickening out, he nodded.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

When no one signaled they were chickening out, he nodded.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

You mention chickening out on your first plan to tour.

A Pop Heiress Comes Ashore Steve Dollar 2011

When no one signaled they were chickening out, he nodded.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

Misha wasn't buying it — and as the greatest regret of Viko's current incarnation was "chickening out" or his leap from the top of one of the buildings in Albany's Egg Plaza the summer after 8th grade and opting, instead, for a "pity me, save me" fake suicide attempt in his parent's mansion in Loudonville , he felt the time had come at last to do the deed.

Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files: Christopher Snyder 2011

And it's that part of the equation that most written SF is chickening out of: it's de rigueur to show how awfully bad things are going, and how much worse they will get, but almost nowhere do you see SF that thinks about how to * solve* those problems.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jetse de Vries 2009

Now, Mr. Vargas Llosa's son, Alvaro, also a writer, accuses Mr. de Soto of "chickening out" of a proposed debate between the two of them.

Insults Fly as Nation's Most Famous Novelist Picks Race's 'Lesser Evil' Matt Moffett 2011

And as mentioned, chickening out on the very big last move of a really high V0.

it's astounding. time is fleeting. stillsostrange 2009