Held back
Both terms in one sentence
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Held Back in School: Subverted when Okawa-senpai unsuccessfully tried to invoke this and refuse graduation to avoid becoming a NEET.
Source: Manga / Silver Spoon - Revenge Before Reason: For the higher Turian echelons, the war's more about being shown up at Shanxi, foreign technology they refuse to even try to understand and being actually held back by a bunch of crazy upstarts than any actual interest in humanity.
Source: Fan Fic / Mythos Effect
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