Sentences with phrase «rubber snakes»
The phrase "rubber snakes" refers to fake snakes made of rubber or similar material. It is often used as a metaphor to describe something that is not real or dangerous, but meant to deceive or scare others. Full definition
Grasshopper: Children are very much a part they play in the shop... i listen to request such as rubber snakes, moustaches, and other things I would never think of bringing into the shop... we love to give away pinwheels and stickers it makes their day... the other day I heard a little boy shout...» mom, this just must be my lucky day»
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So we took rubber snakes and squeaky crocodiles, and now all of a sudden the children are finding the little squeaky crocodiles are their fun things.
It looks like Tremors (in its setting, but especially when a bunch of rubber snakes are shoved sideways out of holes), proceeds like Outbreak, and stops in Slither territory, with all the tissue rejection such a union predicts.
They were fake rubber snakes.
Chimps will beat a rubber snake with sticks over and over again if placed in their vicinity.)
And when mothers faked a fearful reaction to rubber snakes and spiders in the presence of their 15 - to 20 - month - olds in a 2002 experiment, the toddlers exhibited more fear around these objects later on.
Looking down, she saw a long, green snake, so rounded and perfect — so still — she thought, «It's a rubber snake; Stan is playing a trick on me.»
2017 steel slag, salt, glue, pigment, ink, fiberglass, rubber snakes, copper wire, acorn husks, rocks, dirt 51 x 38 x 4 in.
According to the Windsor Star, they alternated between placing a plastic turtle, a rubber snake, a white cup and a grease control line on the centre of the road.
Children were shown a rubber snake or spider (fear - relevant objects) and a rubber mushroom or flower (fear - irrelevant objects), which were alternately paired with either negative or positive expression by their mothers.
My heart skipped a beat, but I decided it was a child's rubber snake.