From those uses in the late 1700s on, this became a rare synonym for coward. If you “show the white feather” or “have a white feather in your tail,” you're yella. This term has no relation to white liver, but arises from the symbolic meaning of a white feather: surrender. White liver has been around since at least 1614, but the adjective white-livered is a little older, showing the eternal appeal of hyphenated insults. This term shares the same concept: If your liver is white, it lacks the respectable red color of blood, and therefore belongs to a coward. You’ve probably heard a coward referred to as lily-livered. But the concept of cowardice is an old one, and there are many now-obscure words for, as Yosemite Sam might put it, lowdown yellow-bellies. Kids love to taunt each other with language like “You’re yellow!” and “You’re a chicken!” As adults, we lambaste politicians for lacking the courage of their convictions. BTFD (buy the f***ing dip): Buying the dips means going long on a stock after its price has declined in the near term and is meant to be repeated after each such drawdown.From the time we’re little children, we’re taught the virtues of bravery, though not always in a positive way.
Some have attributed this to a meme related to the movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but others have suggested that the label comes from the banding together of “dumb apes” to take on the Wall Street elite.
Paper hands 🧻🤲: This is a derogatory slur leveled against those who fail to maintain diamond hands.Hold the line: A battle cry to encourage others to stand firm with diamond hands in the face of volatility.Diamond Hands 💎🤲: Exhibiting extreme fortitude in HODLing, even as markets crash.FOMO (fear of missing out): People jumping onto bandwagon trades or buying into bubbles rather than regretting missing the next big thing.FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt): Misinformation, negative headlines, and dire predictions about crypto, which should be ignored by true adherents.
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