beter <span class="searchmatch">blode</span> <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> <span class="searchmatch">dan</span> <span class="searchmatch">dode</span> <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> Literally, “better cowardly <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> than dead <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span>”. <span class="searchmatch">liever</span> <span class="searchmatch">blode</span> <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> <span class="searchmatch">dan</span> <span class="searchmatch">dode</span> <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> (idiomatic) better safe than sorry...
timid (cowardly) laf (timid) beschroomd, verlegen bloodaard <span class="searchmatch">liever</span> <span class="searchmatch">blode</span> <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> <span class="searchmatch">dan</span> <span class="searchmatch">dode</span> <span class="searchmatch">Jan</span> [3] From Middle Low German blôt, from Old Saxon blōd, from Proto-West...