yellow stripe
Road lane divider
A yellow stripe is a mark of cowardice.
The image comes from the idea that fear shows physically—a stripe down the back suggesting someone might turn and run.
To have a yellow stripe or show a yellow stripe is to reveal cowardly tendencies.
The phrase draws on yellow's long association with cowardice in English, as in yellow-bellied.
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