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Sacked in the Pocket

Football QB metaphor applied to dating meaning to get told by someone that they just want to be friends or don't like you back, before you can make a move or ask them out.

In football, when a QB gets tackled before he can leave the pocket created by his linemen, it's called getting sacked in the pocket.
Me: Yo man did you ask that chick from your class out yet ?
Tom: Nah, man I got sacked in the pocket.

Scared of the big S

Scared of the left side of the politics. Communism, socialism and leftism is your fear.
Real Americans are scared of the big S

Scared to stretch the ruler

It means your scared to do something because it can backfire on you: if you stretch a ruler/measuring tape you don’t want to let go of it because your scared it will backfire to fast and hit your hand.
When free diving into the pool I was scared to stretch the ruler and didn’t jump.