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The scaredy-cat

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A coward; a person who is easily frightened or high-strung and easily scared.

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In "Alfie Is Not Afraid," a debut by the author-illustrator Patricia Carlin, it's never quite clear whether it is the narrator or the narrator's dog who's the scaredy-cat.

What I find so overwhelmingly lovely is how every girl, and I know every girl from the scaredy-cat nerdia majoras up to the ones I don't even talk about because knowing them is post-Skull and Bones-level cool extremism, and every one of them listens to Mariah and Whitney when she's putting on her makeup.

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There was Tommy (one), the leader and the hero; Chuckie (two), the scaredy cat; and Angelica (three), the bully.

The "scaredy cats" are the Blue Dogs.

Even though East London branches of Domino'S pizza had a record number of delivery orders on Valentine's day, the scaredy cat management told all their workers that no delivery men could go anywhere near the tower blocks of Bow for fear of them getting mugged.

Either way, that's enough to make even the biggest scaredy-cat feel a bit better.

However, I freely admit, being the little scaredy-cat that I was, it took me awhile to feel at ease with some of the videos.

"He is the most unprofessional little scaredy-cat I've ever seen in my life," Said said.

While we could care less about opera, we have to say that this is the biggest case of "scaredy-cat syndrome" we have heard this year.

Of course, all this quasi-silliness is light relief for me, as I'm a terrible scaredy-cat and The Fall is a series devoted to the stalking and grisly  murder of brunettes who are bold or daft enough not to carry an assault rifle at all times, even in bed.

"Any Given Sunday," like so many other Stone films dealing with violence, embraces the visceral Dionysian thrill of professional football with the ecstatic eagerness of a scaredy-cat who has conquered his fear of skydiving and become addicted to jumping out of airplanes.

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