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игра "кто первым струсит"game of chicken (The game of chicken (also referred to as playing chicken) is a "game" in which two "players" each drive a vehicle of some sort towards each other, and the first to swerve "loses" and is humiliated as the "chicken". In practice, this sort of game, if played at all, is most likely to be played amongst adolescents or aggressive young men, though it is not at all popular. The principle of the game is to create pressure until one person backs down. Alexander Demidov)
он совсем струсилhis courage was at the lowest ebb
он струсилhis heart sank
он струсилhis heart was in his boots
он струсилhis heart failed him
он струсил и не полез на деревоhe chickened out of climbing up the tree