- afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous
- afraid of the slightest thing
Characters
- 畏 (畏): to fear
- 首 (首): head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- 畏 (畏): to fear
- 尾 (尾): tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish
Resources
- Wiktionary: 畏首畏尾
- MDBG: 畏首畏尾
- Examples with 畏首畏尾 on Tatoeba
Examples
她看起來可能有點畏首畏尾的，但她的意志其實十分堅強。