Crossword clues for run scared
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run scared
vb. (context idiomatic English) To try everything to avoid defeat.
Usage examples of "run scared".
He was surprised that he had forgotten such an important truth and had run scared.
And maybe he should run scared of her connections, but hell if he was going to.
Sandy saw blue fire in his eyes again, though banked and burning more gently than the blazes that had made her run scared under the lilac arbor.
We still run scared of actually cooperating in our own mutual interests, of being caught again in the Statist trap.