weak-kneedinformaldisapproving
yellow(NOT BRAVE)informal
Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you attack somebody who can fight back?
"Real" men are meant to have the "stomach for a fight" and should never be " yellow-bellied".
They laughed at his yellow-bellied (they didn't use that phrase but the implication was clear enough) refusal to climb up a ladder.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cowardly
be afraid of your own shadowidiom
bottle
bottle out
chicken
chicken out
cravenness
fainthearted
gutless
lily-livered
pantywaist
spinelessly
spinelessness
timid
timidity
timidly
uncourageous
unheroic
weak-kneed
wimp
wimp out
yellow-belliedadjective (ANIMAL/BIRD)
having a yellow belly(= under part of the body): 黄腹的
Yellow-bellied marmots fatten themselves all summer and then hibernate.黄腹土拨鼠整个夏天都在养肥自己,然后冬眠。
Among the items received in the park laboratory was a coiled eight-foot-long yellow-bellied snake.
I used to wake up in the morning and hear the yellow-bellied meadowlarks singing.
Nesting on a high ledge were two lammergeiers or yellow-bellied vultures.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Relating to particular parts of the body
abdominal
abdominally
abdominis
adnexa
anally
coronary
gastric
intracardiac
nasal
nasally
nasopharyngeal
nephric
nephritic
neurological
ocular
synaptic
synaptically
tubal
vaginal
vaginally