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faint-hearted

 adjective
     
faint-heart‧ed
1 not trying very hard, because you do not want to do something, or you are not confident that you can succeed [= half-hearted]:
She made a rather faint-hearted attempt to stop him from leaving.
2

something is not for the faint-hearted

used humorously to say that something is difficult and needs a lot of effort
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