chicken-livered 的定义
Informal.
- timid; fearful; cowardly.
更多chicken-livered例句
- Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
- While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
- The chicken, to this day, is valued for its medicinal properties.
- In Rome, he writes, the chicken “predicted the outcome of battles.”
- Lawler is more interested in the more fascinating story of how the chicken spread.
- Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
- So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.
- Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
- Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.
- There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden brown as she.