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Idiom
Definition
Usage
year-round
the entire year without
closing
The supermarket is now
open year-round.
yellow-bellied
cowardly
He is a
yellow-bellied person.
YELLOW
{HAVE A YELLOW STREAK}
cowardly
1. Peter isn’t brave enough to stand up and fight. He’s
yellow.
2. I bought this big dog for protection from burglars, but
he’s a coward. He has a yellow streak a mile long.
YELLOW
JOURNALISM
journalism that is exaggerated or unnecessarily sensational
1. Some of the newspapers that are for sale at the checkout
counter of the supermarket have headlines that are
sensational as well as untrue. They are an example of yellow
journalism.
2. Some newspaper reporters resort to yellow journalism to
sell more copies of their newspapers. They unnecessarily
report the shocking details of events such as murders just
to get headlines that catch the eye.
This idiom is used to indicate someone who is a coward
or someone who is afraid of something. The following
video is a movie clip from Back to the Future 3. They
use the idioms "yellow" and "yellow belly" in this
scene.
Video:
Back to the Future 3 "Nobody Calls Me Yellow"
Back to the Future 3 is a 1990 American science fiction comedy
Western film. This is
the scene
"Nobody Calls Me Yellow" which shows usage of a couple of
idioms.
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