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reluctant dragon

noun

Etymology

In reference to The Reluctant Dragon, an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a shy dragon with no desire to fight people, adapted into a Walt Disney animated film in 1941.

Definitions

  1. A reluctant person

    A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.

    • ENDICOTT: I think probably one of the promotive things we did was to finally convince Luther Terry that he had to do something about smoking and health. He certainly was a reluctant dragon, for a long time.
    • […] Dodd seemed a “reluctant dragon.” No report on his violence probe was ever published. An interim report was mimeographed in a watered-down version for subcommittee members, but never released to the public.
    • Cage, a barrel-chested, tattooed (and how!) loner, finds himself dragooned into national service, a reluctant dragon, selected after a series of bizarre “tests” and then infiltrated into Prague […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA