英语词汇“shrinking violet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	shrinking violet
释义	shrinking violet noun [often with negative] informal An exaggeratedly shy person: Dorothy is no shrinking violet when it comes to expressing her views... There are no shrinking violets in our family, we all had a point of view. She insists it was not a conscious decision, however, and points out she has toured separately with two women who could never be described as shrinking violets. If called upon to sing a song, they weren't shrinking violets.
随便看	-like like a bat out of hell like a bear with a sore head likeability likeable likeableness like a blue-arsed fly likeably like a bride's nightie like a bull at a gate like a bull in a china shop like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks) like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights like a demon like a dog with two tails like a dose of salts like a dream like a drowned rat like a headless chicken like a (hot) knife through butter like a lamb to the slaughter like a leech like a man (or woman) possessed like a moth to the flame like anything

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