yellow-bellied chicken

yellow-bellied chicken

An extremely cowardly person. Tom likes to think he's this champion of political causes, but he's too much of a yellow-bellied chicken to defend his beliefs in public.
See also: chicken
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sex on a stick
  • sex on legs
  • if (one) is a day
  • if he is a day
  • if he's, she's, etc. a day
  • French leave
  • be going great guns
  • be a moot point
  • be a moot point/question
  • moot