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What does fight shy of mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To avoid something.
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For a while I do fight shy of it, till I get off my guard and think I am quite safe.
I dare say he advises you to fight shy of me, and that sort of thing, eh?
Other designers in their 30s and aiming at the post-feminist generation have, until recently, tended to fight shy of updating the pantsuit, instead offering alternatives.
With the standard of riding so high in these races there is no reason for punters to fight shy of them.
We simply cannot believe that a creative artist might, out of respectable diffidence, fight shy of fame.
Was I to fight shy of him, or set to work, as it were, in opposition to him?

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