reluctant dragon

Meaning

Noun

A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.

Origin

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.

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