yellow streak

noun Informal.
a trait of cowardice in a person's character.

Origin:
1910–15, Americanism

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yellow streak
 
n
informal a cowardly or weak trait, characteristic, or flaw in a person's nature

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Yellow streak is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
Example sentences
The legs are of a pale pink coloration, and often there is a pale yellow streak
  visible over the eye, especially in summer.
The long, pointed, pectoral fins are bluish with a yellow streak near the
  center.
Running upward and slightly forward from the umbo is a reddish-yellow streak
  produced by the manubrium of the malleus.
It may contain soft lumps that produce a yellow streak when crushed.
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