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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
Word History and Origins
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.”
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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