in fear
Synonyms
Examples
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Better face a danger once than be always in fear.
He who has a straw tail is always in fear of its catching fire.
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.