What does yellow streak mean?
Idiom Meaning:
cowardly or weak trait
Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:
The Big House (1930)
Time of Scene:
Warden: And remember, this prison does not give a man a yellow streak. But if he has one, it brings it out.
The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
Time of Scene:
Snake: What’s that smell?
Mike Barnes: I don’t know. It smells like yellow streak.
Daniel Larusso: Hey! Okay! This isn’t funny anymore.
Snake: Oh, I know.
Mike Barnes: Sign the application yet?
Daniel Larusso: No.
Twelve O’Clock High (1950)
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General Savage: Rights, Gately? You’ve got a right to explain to General Pritchard cowardice, desertion of your post, a yellow streak a mile wide! And maybe he can explain it to your father so that they’ll both be proud of you! You can tell him right now.
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