fight+shy+of
71hang back — Synonyms and related words: avoid, back down, balance, be dilatory, blench, blink, boggle, cringe, dawdle, debate, deliberate, demur, dodge, drag, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, fall behind, falter, fear, fight shy of, filibuster,… …
72hang off — Synonyms and related words: blench, boggle, demur, falter, fight shy of, flinch, hang back, have qualms, hesitate, hold off, make bones about, pause, pull back, quail, recoil, scruple, shrink, shy, shy at, stick at, stickle, strain, waver, wince …
73hesitate — Synonyms and related words: alternate, back down, balance, balk, be dilatory, blench, boggle, call a recess, debate, delay, deliberate, demur, dither, equivocate, falter, fear, fight shy of, filibuster, flinch, fluctuate, fumble, gain time, halt …
74hold off — Synonyms and related words: abstain, adjourn, be dilatory, beat back, beat off, blench, block, boggle, brush off, chase, chase away, chase off, check, continue, counter, cut, defer, delay, demur, dismiss, dispense with, do without, drag out,… …
75jib — Synonyms and related words: avert, avoid, back down, balance, balk, balloon sail, batten, bear off, blench, blink, boggle, cringe, debate, deliberate, demur, dodge, draw aside, draw back, duck, ease off, edge off, evade, fade, fall back, falter,… …
76pause — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, accent, accent mark, afterthought, back down, balance, bar, bashfulness, bind, blench, block, blockage, boggle, boggling, boundary, breach, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space,… …
77quail — Synonyms and related words: Cornish hen, avoid, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, broiler, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chapon, chicken, cower, cringe, crouch, damsel, demur, dindon, dodge, draw back, duck, duckling, evade, fade, faisan, fall… …
78scruple — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonism, ace, apprehension, atom, awake a doubt, back down, balance, balk, balk at, bashfulness, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beef, better self, bit, bitch, blench, boggle,… …
79steer clear of — Synonyms and related words: avert, avoid, be stuck up, bear off, dodge, draw aside, ease off, edge off, fight shy of, fly off, gee, give place to, glance, glance off, go off, haw, head off, hold aloof, hold away from, jib, keep aloof, keep away,… …
80stick at — Synonyms and related words: back down, balance, blench, boggle, debate, deliberate, demur, falter, fear, fight shy of, flinch, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, hover, hum and haw, jib, make bones about, pause,… …
