| 单词 | to shy off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shy off 3. to shy off (rarely to shy out of something, to shy away); To slip away in order to avoid a person or thing; figurative to find a means of evasion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid avoid1577 to shy out of1792 to fight shy1821 to run a mile1835 1792 Elvina I. 38 We are obliged to shy off. 1843 Miall in Nonconformist III. 209 Men who desire to get rid of the question..shy off, with wonderful dexterity from all allusions to it. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. iv. 101 The style of poetry..as all modern readers confess by the alacrity with which they shy out of the way of reprinted specimens of it [etc.]. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xiii. 177 His blue eyes rather shied away from mine. 1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 111 Elsie was shying off from Alec. < as lemmas |
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