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afraid of one's own shadow
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Idioms and Phrases
Very 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.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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