draw in one’s horns

draw in one’s horns退缩;软化下去：A rogue tried to terrify us into submission，but when we reasoned with him，he drew in his horns.一个流氓试图把我们吓倒，但是当我们跟他辩理时，他退缩了。

• directional counters
• rugosely
• partake of
• yackety-yaks
• flavine
• football hooligan
• put a stop to sth
• belled
• bird-footed dinosaur
• boozed-up
• bear interest
• Moham.
• Windaus, Adolf
• some 500 people / 50%/￡100 etc
• biscuit glace
• second mortgage
• eliminate sb from your enquiries
• adenoceles
• dealkylate
• Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von
• colonizable
• xanthins
• Inaugural Day
• india rubbers
• subcontract
• tristate
• scorpaenid
• hydrogen peroxide
• mortgage
• ride on a pony
• islamizations
• fort smiths
• strike me pink
• line of fall
• epimerase
• merchant seaman
• goddamnedest
• FRF
• point to
• touchdown zone
• cuckoopint
• old-time dancing
• extorter
• ionomer resin
• exoplanet
• malt liquors
• punctureless
• HIM.
• mind one's eye
• quantum number
• put one’s hair up
• seraphically
• kishinevs
• slapper
• elutor
• beamy
• sollar
• lead someone a life
• come through
• (as)cold as charity
• phrenetic
• encolpion
• pungent
• capacitance bridge
• usterts
• high-density
• sustentation
• chullos
• hierocracy
• combustion engineering
• carcinosarcomas
• gangetics
• galactic cluster
• flog to death
• anno Hejirae
• neurotic type
• clutch of sth
• fluoroform
• sand traps
• Grundyist
• stereoimage
• pine hawk moth
• scratch sth ↔ out
• insurgents
• selfishness
• odiousness
• in charge of
• orifice plate
• skinniness
• develop into
• gain in weight
• woodie
• in loco
• expurgating
• listenership
• stived
• full/short measure
• give (sb) an impression / a sense / an idea
• touch-tone dialling
• inundation