Scaredy Cats

At the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday, signs mocked the nation of scaredy-cats we've become. ❋ Post (2010)

Macs, I claimed, were "glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy-cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Fear is the only thing powering the right-wing nuts in our country, so I guess the only way for America to move forward as a society is to pass out the Valium to all the scaredy-cats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So this is what pro-Israel advocacy has come to: turning kids into scaredy-cats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Too bad the profiteering scaredy-cats won't pay attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Everyone knows that the best way to get a teenager to do something is to call them scaredy-cats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Compared to The Blair Witch Project (down to the amateurish acting), the film still terrified a number of scaredy-cats attending the free shriek show on successive nights at Elks Park. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we have to get more people cooking at home and really interested in food and not scaredy-cats about everything. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These days with so many scaredy-cats working at their desks, someone with some verve/gusto will stand out as someone to KNOW. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Dems really need to start calling these wips for what they are -- fear-filled scaredy-cats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sorry to go mad today but on the subject of smug marrieds (like yourself N) and commitment scaredy-cats like myself I just liked this article. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Indeed, these days, it's not that hard to understand that CEOs would be "scaredy-cats" when it comes to making deals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That said, I'd like to believe that there are corporate executives who are just as dismayed as I at the on-going chaos in Iraq, the disintegration of our nation, the dismal state of our infrastructure, at the fear-mongering that has turned us into scaredy-cats, at the violence that has become endemic to our inner cities and erupts all too frequently on our highways, on college campuses and in shopping malls. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In one short sentence Coulter painted them as gutless jellyfishes, quitters, wimps, spineless scaredy-cats … care to add a few yourself? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Instead, you get to wander around in the desert for forty years until every last one of you scaredy-cats is dead except for Caleb and Joshua. ❋ Linda Chaffee Taylor (2008)

But liberal scaredy-cats are so desperate to trust "science" to make things safe, they turn to Big Pharma and Big Ag as though the FDA weren't full of those very companies and the ones who made food unfit for humans in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or, the American boys and girls could have asked, "Which part of this sentence won't you will not un-answer?" to which Iraqis would have answered "Please don't kill me!" like a bunch of scaredy-cats with their noses running because they're whimpering and crying. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Sorkin uses this truism to admonish his CEO readers to "stop being such scaredy-cats" and go out and make some deals: ❋ Unknown (2008)

'I [happen] to be a scaredy-cat' ❋ Scaredy-Cat (2004)

[child] 1 : [no i] [wont] do that. child 2 you scaredy cat. ❋ K.L.Whelpton (2007)