Meaning of reluctant dragon | Babel Free

Definitions

A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.

colloquial

Examples

“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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