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词汇 afraid of one-s shadow
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afraid of one’s shadow. The ancient Greeks used this expres- sion and it probably wasn’t original with them. Still very com- mon today, after thousands of years, the workhorse phrase means, of course, to be very fearful for no good reason, to be extremely jittery.
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