10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHICKEN-LIVERED»
Discover the use of
chicken-livered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chicken-livered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
[chicken n.' (1) + SE inspector] chicken-lifter n. [late 19C-1900s] (US) a chicken
thief; thus any form of petty thief. [SE chicken + lift v.1 (1)] chicken-lips n. [2000s] (
US Black) a White person. chicken-liver n. [1930s-40s] a coward, [chicken-livered
...
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"Competition for the Virgin Soil of Kansas": Gendered and ...
Some descriptions of the doughfaces' lack of courage used phrases like "chicken
- livered" and "white-livered." A Bake-pan for the Dough-faces, for example,
described northern Democrats as "pale-blooded, chicken-livered, and dough-
faced.
Brie Anna Swenson Arnold, 2008
Worst bunch of yellow-bellied, chicken livered ~~~” Billy Ray had heard enough.
He was tired of being called 'yellow' and 'chicken-livered' and 'coward'. His
thermometer had just gone to the top and he could stand this verbal abuse no
longer.
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Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia
"They're all chicken-livered. It's not that they won't kill other people, they're just
afraid of getting killed themselves — that's why they won't go to war!" They forgot
that they themselves had been just that "chicken-livered." They forgot that they ...
William Benbow Edgerton, 1993
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An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, ...
Other compounds, notably chicken-livered, preceded the development of the free
-standing chicken about 1933. This has extended to the idioms derived from
teenage car duels, of playing chicken and chickening out, and the contemptuous
...
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You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him ...
You wouldn't dare, because you are chicken-livered. You know that they are not
like Christians. Despite the “anonymity” of your little chicken coop, they would
come after you to lop off your head. And when they find you, you would fall on
your ...
If you could make Pheenie see Young Joe as he is, if you could hang him up ter
dry on yer clothes-line as a warnin' to all chicken-livered dwarfs an' dudes ter
keep outer yer home-pasture, I should be obligated some." "Chicken-livered?
Horace Annesley Vachell, 1918
He'd get up every morning and eat a Saltine with Velveeta and a Sanka — but
then he'd put on Rimsky-Korsakov, or Prokofiev, or Stravinsky — ballet music,
Firebirdl So I knew he wasn't the chicken livered sonofabitch desgradado my
mother ...
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The Killer Book of Infamous Murders: Incredible Stories, ...
Logan Green, the fiery prosecuting attorney, had told the jury at one point not to
be “chicken-livered”—to convict Smith and Hickock, and to recommend death.
Smith was heard to comment as he was led from the courtroom after the verdict, “
No ...
Tom Philbin, Michael Philbin, 2011
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Mickey Russian's Brother
“You are tired because you are running away from the enemy, and you are
running away because you are a chicken-livered coward. Is that the truth?” the
captain (who had most certainly never taken a course in psychology) asked
Bobby. “Yes ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHICKEN-LIVERED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
chicken-livered is used in the context of the following news items.
'When did "chicken" become synonymous with being afraid?'
There is also chicken-livered: Westmoreland Gazette (5 Sept, 1835): "A hen-pecked husband, forsooth! [...] the veriest chicken-livered husband ... «The Independent, Nov 14»
IDS is proof the Tories value political expedience over ministerial …
He's not just a buffoon; he's a deluded, red-eyed, saliva-flecked evangelist who brooks no criticism and Cameron is too chicken-livered to get ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
In Missouri, Right to Farm Backers Shy Away from Public Debate
The excuse was all too chicken-livered for the Globe that, on July 8, publicly asked Reiboldt, "Since when does an advocacy group tell a state ... «Farmer's Exchange, Jul 14»
Questions about Missouri right to farm legislation
The excuse was all too chicken-livered for the Globe that, on July 8, publicly asked Reiboldt, “Since when does an advocacy group tell a state ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 14»
Review of John B Keane's comedy play Moll in the Gaiety
While Kearney and McDonnell exploit the comic potential of their roles as chicken-livered curates to the full, Keogh's more close-mouthed ... «Irish Independent, Jun 14»
Savage cockfighting ring busted in 'Operation Angry Birds,' nine …
... Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven, Queens, where chicken-livered rooster owners, gamblers and spectators were watching birds fight to the death. «New York Daily News, Feb 14»
Sporting moments I wish I'd been at
... became the most infamous moment in New Zealand sport and according to Prime Minister Robert Muldoon the most chicken-livered moment ... «Otago Daily Times, Jan 14»
Melanie Daniels in The Birds. Image by Rick Aguilar Studios
The characters included a henpecked husband, a chicken-livered police deputy, a pigeon-toed school teacher, an eagle-eyed ... «Windy City Times, Aug 13»
When a paint job turns ugly
I was too chicken-livered to tell Steve to stop and change colors, even though we were horrified at what was going up on our walls. I knew that ... «OCRegister, May 13»
Vegemite interrogation on the Prague night train
_____like a bunch of chicken-livered losers! I churn all the should-haves, could-have-beens. My vitals roil _____like kittens in a drowning-sack, «Eureka Street, Feb 13»
