balk at the idea (of something)

To indignantly reject or recoil from a given idea, topic, or suggestion. He balked at the idea of reducing the number of staff to pay for an increase to the executives' pay.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yiftach	-	Biblical Hebrew
Seo-Hyeon	su-hyun	Korean
Augustin	o-goos-TEN (French)	French, Czech, Romanian, Croatian, German
Sethunya	-	Southern African, Tswana
Odin	O-din	Norse Mythology, English (Modern)
Arman	-	Kazakh