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yellow streak
noun
- a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
yellow streak
noun
- informal.a cowardly or weak trait, characteristic, or flaw in a person's nature
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Origin of yellow streak1
Example Sentences
Another Jones signature is to paint a red or yellow streak on one side of the canvas or its top, perpendicular to the wall, so that when the light hits, a diffuse glow forms.
At the 1908 International Exclusion League convention in Seattle, an American Federation of Labor official declared that the Stars and Stripes would never have “a yellow streak.â€
Covered in crunchy quinoa, toasted sesame seeds and flakes of kelp intensified with soy, it sits on a yellow streak of sauce made from aji amarillo.
The newspaper checked it out with the local constable who confirmed that a dummy, half black, half white, with my name on it and a yellow streak painted down its back, was hanging from the wire.
“It has a yellow color because there’s a yellow streak in the middle, somewhere between daffodil and lemon yellow,†she said.
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