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over-timorous
over-timorous adj.
Brit. 
/ˌəʊvəˈtɪm(ə)rəs/
, /ˌəʊvəˈtɪm(ə)rəs/U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtɪm(ə)rəs/
/ˌoʊvərˈtɪm(ə)rəs/ΚΠ
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A Their ouertimerous cowardise.
a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 203 That kind of superstition stiled δεισιδαιμονία, which imports a frightful & over-timorous notion of the Deity.
1966 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 46 435 Expressed in terms that Latin Americans ordinarily use only with each other, and most over-timorous North Americans are afraid to use at all.
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- to have one's fingers on the pulse
- to have one's fling
- to have one's foot on native heath
- to have one's foot on one's native heath
- to have one's forth
- to have one's garret unfurnished
- to have one's guts about one's ears
- to have one's hand in
- to have one's hand in the till
- to have one's hand on another halfpenny
- to have one's hand on one's halfpenny
- to have one's hands free
- to have one's hands full
- to have one's hat chalked
- to have one's head in the clouds
- to have one's head screwed on right
- to have one's head screwed on the right way
- to come to good pass
- to come to grapnel
- to come to grasp
- to come to grief
- to come to gripes
- to come to grips
- to come to hand
- to come to hand blows