Dare not
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Elliot of El Goonish Shive, as he overhears a conversation about a topic he knows a lot about and yet dare not reveal what he knows for fear of breaking the Masquerade.
Source: Not-So-Innocent Whistle -
Up the airy mountain Down the rushy glen We dare not go a-hunting For fear of little men.
Source: The Fair Folk -
In this case, instead of being launched immediately after accumulating a critical example mass and finding a nice name, the YKTTW entry stays in discussion for weeks, repeatedly bumped by people who find it tropeworthy but dare not launch it themselves out of fear to offend the original poster.
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Fear and Dare not. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dare_not/fear
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