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Verb: pull in one's horns
Usage: informal
  1. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    - retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish [N. Amer, informal], crawfish out [N. Amer, informal], withdraw

Derived forms: pulling in one's horns, pulled in one's horns, pulls in one's horns

Type of: break, break off, cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop, surcease [archaic]