"fight shy" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "fights shy",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fighting shy",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought shy",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "fought shy",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "fight shy (third-person singular simple present fights shy, present participle fighting shy, simple past and past participle fought shy)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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              132,
              141
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          "ref": "1903, Margaret Sherwood, Daphne, an Autumn Pastoral:",
          "text": "Maybe she is imprisoned there and cannot get out: it would be a terrible fate, would it not, Signorina? Me, I think it is better to fight shy of the heathen gods.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
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              123,
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          "ref": "1909, Arthur Stringer, “The Movement in Retreat”, in The Gun-runner, New York, N.Y.: B. W. Dodge & Company:",
          "text": "\"That's worse than useless. He's drunk. And we'll only get him against us, for he'd order us to keep out of the mess. He'd fight shy of entangling alliances. He'd forbid me to send, for he's got his ship to clear from that port.\"",
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          "ref": "2015 April 10, Mike Selvey, “Ambassadorial Richie Benaud would always fight shy of criticising players”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2015:",
          "text": "I was struck by the manner in which Richie would always tend towards overstating the skills of players while fighting shy of criticising, as if he felt he was an ambassador for them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid meeting at a close distance or at close quarters; to keep out of reach, to avoid."
      ],
      "id": "en-fight_shy-en-verb-2padSltU",
      "links": [
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To avoid meeting at a close distance or at close quarters; to keep out of reach, to avoid."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "steer clear"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight shy"
}

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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "fought shy",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought shy",
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  ],
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      "expansion": "fight shy (third-person singular simple present fights shy, present participle fighting shy, simple past and past participle fought shy)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
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              132,
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          "ref": "1903, Margaret Sherwood, Daphne, an Autumn Pastoral:",
          "text": "Maybe she is imprisoned there and cannot get out: it would be a terrible fate, would it not, Signorina? Me, I think it is better to fight shy of the heathen gods.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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              123,
              132
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          ],
          "ref": "1909, Arthur Stringer, “The Movement in Retreat”, in The Gun-runner, New York, N.Y.: B. W. Dodge & Company:",
          "text": "\"That's worse than useless. He's drunk. And we'll only get him against us, for he'd order us to keep out of the mess. He'd fight shy of entangling alliances. He'd forbid me to send, for he's got his ship to clear from that port.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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              109,
              121
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          ],
          "ref": "2015 April 10, Mike Selvey, “Ambassadorial Richie Benaud would always fight shy of criticising players”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2015:",
          "text": "I was struck by the manner in which Richie would always tend towards overstating the skills of players while fighting shy of criticising, as if he felt he was an ambassador for them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid meeting at a close distance or at close quarters; to keep out of reach, to avoid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To avoid meeting at a close distance or at close quarters; to keep out of reach, to avoid."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "steer clear"
        }
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight shy"
}