Timid Phrases

Phrases

• A coward dies a hundred deaths
• Afraid of your own shadow
• Afraid so
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Camera shy
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Failure to launch
• Faint at heart
• Fight shy
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
• Gutless wonder
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• Nervous Nellie
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Running scared
• Scared out of your wits
• Scared shitless
• Scared silly
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• The Coward Of Bitter Creek (Nickname of Jason McCord (Chuck Connors))
• The Master (Nickname of Noel Coward)
• The coward's way out
• The meek shall inherit the earth
• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• Wouldn't say boo to a goose
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)