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Discover LudwigThe phrase "wimp out" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to describe someone who lacks the courage to do something, so it is usually used in a negative way. For example, "I can't believe he just wimped out of the challenge".
Dictionary
wimp out
verb
To behave like a wimp.
synonyms
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"Don't wimp out on me now".
(Unless you wimp out with those pesky judges).
"Do you know how many parents wimp out?
Ann Coulter has a term for conservatives who wimp out like this -- "girly boys".
Others expressed relief that they could now wimp out with impunity.
Workplace lingo was relentlessly jocular ("gotcha," "wake-up call," "wimp out").
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And the two firms hardly have an exclusive on the public relations strategy: politicians are masters of the weekend wimp-out, and companies regularly try to bury bad earnings news when fewer shareholders are watching.
Not that it's a complete wimp-out.
"We thought it was a funny thing, and everyone else thought it was this total wimp-out, sellout move".
But if he doesn't, his Hispanic supporters will sense a wimp-out and stay home from the polls.
There were other such expressions of potential social and political disruption... only to come to a point, and rather limply to retract, to wimp-out, and to take to the easier choices of, essentially, selling out.
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