| 词组 | afraid of one's own shadow |
| 释义 | Idiom afraid of one's own shadow Theme: FEAR easily frightened; always frightened, timid, or suspicious.After Tom was robbed, he was even afraid of his own shadow.Jane has always been a shy child. She has been afraid of her own shadow since she was three. afraid of (one's) own shadowEasily scared; jumpy; timid. Everyone was surprised that Janice led the meeting with confidence, as she normally seems afraid of her own shadow. Please don't take my sister to a haunted house on Halloween—she's afraid of her own shadow. afraid of one's own shadowVery timid and fearful, as in Richard constantly worries about security; he's afraid of his own shadow. This hyperbole has been used in English since the early 1500s, and some writers believe it originated in ancient Greece. afraid of one's own shadowExtremely timid, excessively fearful. In Richard III (ca. 1513), Sir Thomas More wrote, “Who may lette her feare her owne shadowe,” although a few years later Erasmus cited Plato as having said the same thing in Greek hundreds of years before. Henry David Thoreau used the phrase to describe the timidity of Concord’s town selectmen in refusing to toll the parish bell at John Brown’s hanging (1859), and by then it had been in use for at least two centuries. |
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