have a yellow belly

and have a yellow streak down one's back

Fig. to be cowardly. Tex has a yellow streak down his back a mile wide. He's afraid to cross the street!

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Beylke	-	Yiddish
Carmela	kahr-ME-lah	Italian, Spanish
Ulrika	ool-REE-kah	Swedish
Adelbert	AH:-dəl-bərt (Dutch)	German, Dutch
Delwyn	-	Welsh
Emma	EM-ə (English), EM-mah (Finnish), E-mah (German)	English, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Dutch, German, An