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chicken out

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If the juices run clear, you can take the chicken out of the oven and let it rest for 10 minutes before serving.

Well, I'll bet you can't get a chicken out of our barn 'thout our Dog gettin' you, Mr. Smarty.

It was like the grip of home, and the lost Earth, and the fear that he would chicken out and return.

The puzzle was to make a chicken out of an orange with four cuts of the scissors and the prick of a pin.

All I need do is to wait right here around the corner, and if he brings a chicken out, I'll simply tell him to drop it.

With amusing bluntness he sent the chicken out to be killed before he ate it, complaining that the eggs were not hard enough.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chicken out, such as: avoid, back down, back out, back-pedal, beg off, and blow it off.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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