What's the difference between chickenshit and shithouse?

Chickenshit


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are all these businessmen with loads of money too chickenshit to do this.” What was amazing about Pussy Riot, she says, “is that it opened up this philosophical debate.
  • (2) US relations with Israel have plunged to new depths of bitterness and hostility as senior officials in the Obama administration decried Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit prime minister”, “coward” and a man more interested in his own political survival than peace.
  • (3) A s the crisis in relations between the United States and Israel plunges to new depths, senior Obama administration officials last week allegedly described Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit prime minister” and a “coward” .
  • (4) Love did his bit to add to the ongoing weirdness by accepting the band's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with a rambling speech in which he variously attacked Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and called Mick Jagger a "chickenshit".
  • (5) If anything, the ubiquity of other kids going through the same thing led many of my friends and I to the same conclusions: that somehow we were more chickenshit than our other friends, that locking yourself in the bedroom and pleading with one parent not to send you over to another parent’s home for their custodial visitation manifested some particularly unmanly cravenness.
  • (6) The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” said one official quoted in the Atlantic.

Shithouse


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  • (1) The model I use for my paintings is a surfer guy who's built like a brick shithouse."
  • (2) Alyokhina responded by quoting the president and his spokesman: "That is no more indecent than your Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin]'s statements about 'wasting our enemies in the shithouse' or 'smearing the livers of protesters on the pavement'."

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