glove-shy

French translation: il a peur du combat

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English term or phrase:glove-shy
French translation:il a peur du combat
Entered by: FX Fraipont (X)

06:09 Aug 16, 2013
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / film
English term or phrase: glove-shy
It is from the movie "Necessary Roughness". Thank you in advance. I've gone glove-shy.
cristini04
Romania
Local time: 16:33
il a peur du combat
Explanation:
il a perdu son assurance

"When Dani gets to her office, she finds Blake Bridges there, a pompous boxer who's got his feet up on her desk. He’s worried because he’s gone glove shy since getting knocked out really bad a few weeks earlier. "
http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2013/08/necessary-roughn...
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FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 15:33
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il a peur du combat


Explanation:
il a perdu son assurance

"When Dani gets to her office, she finds Blake Bridges there, a pompous boxer who's got his feet up on her desk. He’s worried because he’s gone glove shy since getting knocked out really bad a few weeks earlier. "
http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2013/08/necessary-roughn...

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 15:33
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 198
Grading comment
Thank you very much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Right! I guessed as much, it sounded so much like boxing; but it would have helped to have had that context in the first place...
6 mins
  -> thanks Tony !

agree  B D Finch
7 hrs
  -> thanks Barbara!
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