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• Yah boo sucks.
Yah boo & yah boo sucks can be used to show that you have no sympathy with someone.
• Yank my chain.

If someone says this to another person (i.e. stop yanking my chain) it means for the other person to leave

the person who said it alone and to stop bothering them.
• Yell bloody murder.
If someone yells bloody murder, they protest angrily and loudly, or scream in fear.
• Yellow press.

The yellow press is a term for the popular and sensationalist newspapers.
• Yellow streak.

If someone has a yellow streak, they are cowardly about something.
• Yellow – bellied.

A yellow-bellied person is a coward.
• Yen.

If you have a yen to do something, you have a desire to do it.
• Yeoman’s service.
To do yeoman’s service is to serve in an exemplary manner.
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