flinch
意味
- (…から)しりごみする,たじろぐ《+from+名(doing)》
例文
He is not such a man as to flinch from danger.
彼は危険から尻込みするような人ではない。
You mustn't let the other person notice that you flinched.
怯んだのを相手に気取られてはいけない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle French flenchir (“to bend”), from Old French flenchir, flanchir, from Frankish *hlankijan, from Proto-Germanic *hlankijaną (“to bend, twist, flex”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend, turn, wind”). Cognate with Old High German hlenken, whence Middle High German lenken (“to bend”), Modern German lenken (“to cause to veer or turn aside, steer”). Attested in English since the 16th century.