you're chicken

you're chicken

You're a coward. You would never steal the mascot, you're chicken! You're shaking just thinking about it right now!
See also: chicken
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • at the mercy of
  • at (someone's or something's) mercy
  • at risk
  • chicken out of (something)
  • chicken out of something
  • chicken out
  • (Are you) going my way?
  • chicken powder
  • no chicken
  • be no spring chicken
References in periodicals archive
While going down an escalator at a Manila shopping mall, Mayweather heard a woman shout, "I don't like you, you're chicken," obviously referring to his refusal to engage Pacquiao in a rematch.
"All that's going to do is stir people to go to that person's Twitter or social media and say, 'You're scared, you don't want this, you're chicken.' When I see professional athletes doing that - that are trying to embody the spirit of a martial artist - it just puts a bad taste in my mouth," he added.
But Lennox sent Tyson's cronies a curt memo: "Admit you're chicken - or stop hiding."
And if you go in the back right and you're chicken and you leave it short left, it's an impossible putt."
One says: "Naz, you're chicken." Another reads: "Lightning, you're done.