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== Idioms and expressions == * Yellow-belly is an American expression which means a [[coward]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Shorter Oxford English dictionary, 6th ed|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-19-920687-2|page=3804}}</ref> The term comes from the 19th century and the exact origin is unknown, but it may refer to the color of sickness, which means a person lacks strength and stamina.<ref>''Picturesque Expressions: A Thematic Dictionary'', 1st Edition. Β© 1980 The Gale Group, Inc.</ref> * [[Yellow journalism]] is also an American term for news which present limited research to its findings. * [[Yellow pages]] refers in various countries to directories of telephone numbers, arranged alphabetically by the type of business or service offered. * Asian people, especially [[East Asians]], have been racialized as [[color terminology for race|yellow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/09/27/647989652/if-we-called-ourselves-yellow|title=If We Called Ourselves Yellow|last=Chow|first=Kat|website=[[NPR]] }}</ref> ** The [[Yellow Peril]] was a term used in politics and popular fiction in the late 19th and early 20th century to describe the alleged economic and cultural danger posed to Europe and America by Chinese immigration. The term was first used by [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] in Germany in 1895, and was the subject of numerous books and later films.<ref>{{cite book | last = Keevak| first= Michael | author-link = Michael Keevak | title = Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking | year=2011 | publisher=Princeton University Press | location=United States | isbn=978-0-691-14031-5 | page=248}}</ref> ** [[Asian fetish#Terminology and usage of yellow fever|Yellow fever]] is a slang phrase to describe an Asian [[Race and sexuality#Racial fetishism|race fetish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10935508/Yellow-fever-fetish-Why-do-so-many-white-men-want-to-date-a-Chinese-woman.html|title='Yellow fever' fetish: Why do so many white men want to date a Chinese woman?|date=July 2014 }}</ref> * [[High yellow]] was a term sometimes used in the early 20th century, to describe light-skinned African-Americans. * [[wiktionary:yellow snow|Yellow snow]], snow that is yellow from urination.
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