"Nervous Nellie" nghĩa là gì?

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"Nervous Nellie" -> nghĩa là người nhút nhát, hay lo lắng.

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“We’ll see how that goes. He’s a big, strong powerful guy that likes to rough (trêu tức) people up. Ben was a guy that we really wanted,” Harbaugh said. “I was kind of being a little bit of a nervous Nellie. I kind of wanted us to trade up.”

Up-and-coming mare (ngựa cái) Salina Dreaming will be on trial for stakes racing when she lines up at Randwick. As a younger horse, Salina Dreaming was a nervous Nellie but thankfully for her exasperated (khích lệ) trainer Angela Davies, with age has come maturity.

It helps me cope because through all the tragedies (bi kịch) in my life, I tend to get nervous Nellie. This keeps me occupied. I’ll come out here and organize and situate and check expiration dates. It takes away from me just sitting and having nervous energy to helping others.

Sky News host Chris Smith says there are “nervous Nellie” premiers (người đứng đầu) demanding quarantine be “banished to the bush”. He said this is the case “because of leakage into the community” in some of the country’s major cities in recent months.

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