chicken-livered

Show you something else I've learned, if you're not chicken-livered.

Already I've had some of those chicken-livered investors try to bail out.

"You're trying to tell me you killed the white man, you chicken-livered punk?"

"Don't be so chicken-livered, Silk," she told him scornfully.

"He's a nervous, chicken-livered kind of man; and when I look at him he turns the colour of putty.

The British government demonstrate a chicken-livered stance on most issues regarding British industry hence our massive trade deficit.

Turning to the out-at-elbows musicians, he called to them with well-feigned indignation: "Are ye milksops or chicken-livered cowards?"

'Aye, the chicken-livered swab!'

And that brave and noble old gent for whom you've just been weeping large tears has suddenly become a cowardly, chicken-livered old creep who'll cravenly sign his name to anything after a couple of minutes' interrogation.

Both of them was edging away in different directions, growling and shaking their heads and going on about what they was going to do; but a little black-whiskered chap skipped up and says-- 'Come back here, you couple of chicken-livered cowards, and I'll thrash the two of ye!'