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? |