Learn English – What’s the meaning of “gun shy” and “come back in here”

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From NPR:

One problem we would have here is to calculate the damage because I believe the damage is incalculable and it's going to ripple into the future, because it will cost us convention business and people will be a little gun shy about coming back in here if they think this could happen again.
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I have two questions:

  1. What's the meaning of gun shy?
  2. come back in here is a little weird for me. I know a phrase is come here, so I think if I want to stress the orientation back, I can only add a word back before here, just as come back here (but still a little weird for me). So why does he add the word in before here? Can you give me more examples?

Best Answer

You can find a definition of gun-shy over at The Free Dictionary:

  1. Afraid of loud noise, such as that of gunfire.

  2. Extremely distrustful or wary

"Back" indicates that "come here" is to return to "here," and "in" implies that "here" is an enclosed location, or one with discrete borders (e.g., a town). Here's another example (of bad parenting) that I just made up:

[A parent to a child who just went outside]: If you don't come back in here now, you can stay out!

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