| 释义 |
ˈchicken-ˈheart
a. A ‘heart’ or courage as faint as a chicken's.
b. A timorous, cowardly person.
1602Middleton Blurt ii. ii, Such chicken-hearts, and yet great quarrellers. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xii, Why, you chicken-heart. 1836Marryat Three Cutt. iii, You must have a chicken-heart to be frightened at a blue pigeon. 1871G. Murray Member for Paris II. 10. |