Idiom
fold under zero pressure
Meaning
To give up without or with little reason.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He tends to fold under zero pressure during simple games.”
“Even though the task was quite easy, he started to fold under zero pressure and quit immediately.”
“It was disappointing to watch the team fold under zero pressure, abandoning their objectives before any real challenge had even emerged.”
Examples
simple
“He tends to fold under zero pressure during simple games.”
contextual
“Even though the task was quite easy, he started to fold under zero pressure and quit immediately.”
complex
“It was disappointing to watch the team fold under zero pressure, abandoning their objectives before any real challenge had even emerged.”
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