“Chicken out”: phrasal verb meaning.
- Chicken out
- Be scared to do something you previously decided and wanted to do. When you have planned to do something courageous but then, before doing it, you suddenly lose courage and you decide you will not do it.
Other examples of “chicken out” phrasal verb in a sentence
- He wanted to do parachuting but he chickened out at the last moment.
- You’re not going to chicken out this time, are you?
- She was going to do it but then she chickened out.
“Chicken out”: use in context explanation
The couple have invited their friends over to their house to spend a nice evening together. They’ve come up with an idea to have a hot chili pepper eating challenge. They are each going to eat a very, very spicy chili pepper. There’s one problem, though. Richard doesn’t want to do it anymore. He’s chickened out.
