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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 14:11:56 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   What's the historical background for being yellow meaning being a coward? Is it a derivative of being a chicken because they're yellow?
   
   Was the expression ever used outside "Back to the Future"?
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 15:01:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke Yellow as cowardice goes back a while. I remember an old movie set in the 1800s US wild West, where they called a cowardly person a "yellow bellied sapsucker". So it goes back at least into the 1950s or 1960s when the movie was made.
   • glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 16:19:47 UTC glyn

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     @clacke Maybe from "yellow-belly" https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/yellow-belly.html

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