pull in one's horns

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate.

   “Barry . . . stood, during this tirade, half stupefied with rage, and half frightened, at the open attack made on him. . . . However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in self-defence, to brazen it out.”