fight shy of doing
Idiomto be unwilling to accept sth or do sth, and to try to avoid it
Meaning
Meaning
fight shy of sth / of doing sth
to be unwilling to accept sth or do sth, and to try to avoid it
Successive governments have fought shy of such measures.
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Definitions from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9th edition
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