臨陣退縮 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 临阵退缩 línzhèntuìsuō ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄓㄣˋ ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄙㄨㄛ to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) to get cold feet Character by character 臨(lín)face 陣(zhèn)disposition of troops 退(tuì)retreat 縮(suō)withdraw A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0