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gutless wonder
noun
an outstanding coward US, 1900- [H]e began to curse the shire engineer and the road gang responsible for the upkeep of this by-blow of a road, a set of wool-brained gutless wonders, none of whem worked an ounce of fat off their carcasses in a month. — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 58, 1956
- “Some kind of gutless wonder?” This too was the title of a book by Trout. — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, p. 213, 1969
- You can’t run away! Fight, you gutless wonder! — Barry Oakley, A Salute to the Great McCarthy, p. 113, 1970
- — Peter Corris, Make Me Rich, p. 142, 1985
- — Ivor Limb, Footy’s No Joke!, p. 57, 1986
- Copernicus was a gutless wonder who is only remembered because he was indisputably a world-shaking genius. — Ignatius Jones, The 1992 True Hip Manual, p. 36, 1992
- — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 9, 1998
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