See pull in one's horns on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "In reference to the behaviour of a snail when it is threatened.",
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"ref": "1848, Anthony Trollope, chapter 7, in The Kellys and the O'Kellys:",
"text": "Barry . . . stood, during this tirade, half stupefied with rage, and half frightened, at the open attack made on him. . . . However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in self-defence, to brazen it out.",
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"ref": "1904, Jack London, chapter 9, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"I see Cooky's finish,\" I heard Smoke say to Horner. \"You bet,\" was the reply. \"Hump runs the galley from now on, and Cooky pulls in his horns.\"",
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"ref": "1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in The Adventures of Sally:",
"text": "Anyone else would have pulled in his horns and gone slow for a spell, but he's one of those fellows whose horse is always going to win the next race.",
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"ref": "1950 October 30, “The Press: Time to Pause”, in Time:",
"text": "Editor & Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt decided to pull in his horns. Said Hoyt: \"We've decided it is time to pause, recapitulate and prepare to recommence.\"",
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"ref": "2003 April 6, Susan Warner, “Fighting Off the Chains”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-10:",
"text": "\"Smaller hardware stores in the area were scared,\" he said. \"They stopped making investments. They pulled in their horns.\"",
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"To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate."
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"(idiomatic) To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate."
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"word": "cool off"
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"word": "hold one's horses"
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"word": "settle down"
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"word": "draw in one's horns"
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"text": "Barry . . . stood, during this tirade, half stupefied with rage, and half frightened, at the open attack made on him. . . . However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in self-defence, to brazen it out.",
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"text": "\"I see Cooky's finish,\" I heard Smoke say to Horner. \"You bet,\" was the reply. \"Hump runs the galley from now on, and Cooky pulls in his horns.\"",
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"ref": "1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in The Adventures of Sally:",
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},
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"ref": "1950 October 30, “The Press: Time to Pause”, in Time:",
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"ref": "2003 April 6, Susan Warner, “Fighting Off the Chains”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-10:",
"text": "\"Smaller hardware stores in the area were scared,\" he said. \"They stopped making investments. They pulled in their horns.\"",
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"(idiomatic) To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate."
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"word": "chill"
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"word": "cool off"
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"word": "cool one's jets"
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"word": "hold one's horses"
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"word": "settle down"
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{
"word": "draw in one's horns"
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"word": "pull in one's horns"
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