pull in one's horns

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• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  pull in one's horns — verb — english

  make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"