without guts

“He’s the only one without guts to say ‘We’re going to build a wall.’

Otherwise, we will end as a country without guts or Samaritans.

Cabinets "without continuity" can do nothing, he complained, and appeals for, action are lost on "administrations without ears and without guts."

You're nothing but a pink-ear, a whey-faced baby without guts to stand the gaff.

Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.