hang back

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hang back

verb hangs back · hanging back · hung back

informal To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance. '[…] Perhaps just at present he may be undecided; the smallness of your fortune may make him hang back; his friends may all advise him against it. But some of those little attentions and encouragements which ladies can so easily give, will fix him, in spite of himself […]'

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@misc{hang_back_2026,
  title = {hang back},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hang%20back},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}