yellow-bellied

yellow-bellied

Cowardly. I'm not surprised that Tom didn't come to the rally—he's too yellow-bellied to defend his beliefs in public.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

yellow-bellied

mod. cowardly. What yellow-bellied skunk ran off with my horse?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • yellow-bellied chicken
  • belly out
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
References in periodicals archive
Yellow-bellied marmots like me make our homes in the mountains of the western United States and Canada.
Just call me Rock Chuck!
Specifically, in our study eagles ate fewer Yellow-bellied Marmots (27.6 versus 40.3%), Chukar Partridge (4.4 versus 11.7%), and Blue Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) (2.2 versus 13.0%).
Comparative diets of nesting Golden Eagles in the Columbia Basin between 2007-2013 and the late 1970s
However, no studies have simultaneously combined Yellow-bellied Sapsucker habitat use and host tree selection with host tree morphology and physiology, particularly in the southwestern portion of its U.S.
Habitat and host tree selection by wintering yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in East Texas
Early in the past century seven species were found nearly every spring near Urbana but more than 40 years later they were recorded at Charleston in less than half the 23 years: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (5 years), Bewick's Wren (8 years and none after 1984), Winter Wren, Loggerhead Shrike, Black-throated Blue Warbler (3 years) and Pine Warbler.
Avian spring arrival differences in east-central Illinois, 1903-1922 and 1965-1987
Surely that option exists for those yellow-bellied quitters who will probably receive more support from Canadian taxpayers than many of our own disabled war veterans.
I'm generally an easy-going type (so my friends say), but my blood is really aboil
Species like the otter and the yellow-bellied toad live there and these species as well as the habitat itself might be threatened as the construction would reduce the quantity of water in the river.
ENVIRONMENT: FINLAND AND ITALY IN THE DOCK FOR BREACH OF HABITATS DIRECTIVE
Post-burn transect searches of the site revealed one yellow-bellied racer (Coluber constrictor) mortality due to the fire.
Potential effects of mowing prior to summer burning on the Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus c. catenatus) at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Holt County, Missouri, USA
Another critter that is pesky but usually not lethal is the yellow-bellied sapsucker.
Live oak: the ultimate southerner
The land along the Spokane River has been home to yellow-bellied marmots for thousands of years.
Up on marmot mountain
As many a backcountry camper discovers, yellow-bellied marmots will gnaw through anything to get at stashed food or salty, sweat-stained clothes.
Is That a Marmot Under My Hood?
The perpetrators are yellow-bellied marmots who chew through hoses on automobile engines.
Junkie Marmots
scapulatus) flying foxes, and four isolates from an insectivorous bat (Microchiroptera), the yellow-bellied sheathtail bat (Saccolaimus flavicentris) (P.
Emerging Viral Diseases: An Australian Perspective
White-throated sparrows, oven-birds rose-breasted grosbeaks, wood thrushes and yellow-bellied sapsuckers are just a few of the species felled by lit office towers.
Invisible killer (birds and office towers)
While most of Mexico's and Central America's great forest expanses have been razed, new research from the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center shows that some migratory species, like the Kentucky warbler and yellow-bellied flycatcher, can thrive in patches of forest, and even in heavily shaded coffee and cacao plantations.
Silent skies: migratory bird populations decline worldwide
Luckily, you had the yellow-bellied sapsuckers to lean on.
Nectar feeding