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shrinking violet

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1. shrinking violet - Noun

2. shrinking violet - Phrase

Meaning

someone who shrinks from familiarity with others

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Better that he take risks than that he ends up a shrinking violet like Ahmad Shah Qajar. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet. Keke Palmer

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