pull in one's horns
verbid
15960·updated Jun 3, 2026verified
to make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- retreat
- pasttense
- pulled in one's horns
- presentparticiple
- pulling in one's horns
- thirdpersonsingular
- pulls in one's horns
- pastparticiple
- pulled in one's horns
Framework definitions
- §1
- to make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
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