How To Use lily-livered In A Sentence
- The company commissioned research into consumer attitudes to new technology which showed that we are all a bunch of lily-livered, scaredy-cats when it comes to trying new gizmos.
- If you're willing to be prime minister without getting the public to vote for you, it's just lily-livered sissiness to let the fact your colleagues won't vote for you either stand in your way. Newmatilda.com - Comments
- Some lily-livered people think that our Prime Minister deserves more respect from scribes.
- He was also known to refer to the generalissimo as “a lily-livered Chink” and a “slant-eyed snake.” The Last Empress
- Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the antonym of bravery: ‘lily-livered’.
- You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered cowards with you!
- To miss this window of opportunity would be a near-guarantee of a future more lily-livered than lily-white.
- South Dakotans refused to embrace this lily-livered tactic.
- He gives a sterling performance as the lily-livered auctioneer Mick Flanagan with Shona Heffernan in top form as his embittered, feisty wife Mamie.
- This means an arrogant faith in victory or success; the image is a bunch of guys tossing their caps up in the air and shouting, ‘Whipping them lily-livered toads will be a piece of cake!’
