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shrinking violet

noun as in very shy person

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They are hardy — any flower that grows next to a freeway ain’t no shrinking violet.

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"I always thought he'd be a future champion, but I've really seen him change from that shrinking violet who first stepped into my office," Warren reflects.

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The centenarian is remembered by his friends as a man with “impeccable diction” and gentle spirit, but he was no shrinking violet.

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“I put up a fight because I’m not exactly a shrinking violet,” she says.

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Her co-star Oliver Reed - hardly a shrinking violet himself - memorably described acting alongside her as like "being run over by a Bedford truck".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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