Sentences with phrase «small deer»

The phrase "small deer" is a play on words that sounds like "small beer." It means something insignificant or unimportant, just like a small deer compared to a bigger, more impressive one. Full definition
In his sixties, bright - eyed with a square jaw, the shaman wore traditional dress: a wide - brimmed hat, a brightly colored woven shoulder bag, flowing white pants, and a shirt embroidered with small deer figures and colorful peyote symbols.
They found that the leeches feed at least somewhat indiscriminately on a large variety of mammals, including small deer called muntjacs, macaque monkeys, wildcats, rodents like porcupines and rats, as well as a vulnerable species in the area, a gaur, or Indian bison.
Six million years ago, the wetlands and river valleys of southwestern China were full of life: tapirs and small deer strolled the shores, and the waters brimmed with clams.
The path leads down further to an enclosure holding small deer, well - fed and looked after.
Tiger And Prey Populations Stabilized The footage obtained this year shows the vast variety of animals, many of them rare, roaming through Thailand's forests: tigers, elephants, leopards, dholes (a wild species of dog), clouded leopards, bantengs (a wild species of cattle), gaurs, sun bears, lisangs, wild boars, muntjacs (a type of small deer), hog badgers, pangolins, green peafowl, and Malayan tapirs.
I mixed them with baby boo pumpkins and small deer sheds in a tobacco basket.
For those interested in seeing the purity and beauty of raw nature, the Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve in Cabuya is a breathtaking place to hike to see howler and capuchin monkeys, small deer called venado, jaguars and more exotic birds than you can possibly imagine.
With larger jaws, more muscle and faster legs, individual coywolves can take down small deer.
Chimpanzees forage and will kill and eat monkeys and small deer they happen to encounter (flesh foods can account for over 20 % of the calories in a male chimpanzee's diet during the dry season in Africa).
There it was first called the Reh Pinscher because of its supposed similarity to the reh, or small deer, that used to inhabit Germany's forests.
Be sure to keep an eye out for the small deer which inhabit the island.
You can also find wild animals on the island including wild pigs, small deer, deer, iguanas, porcupines, turtles and many kinds of poisonous snakes.
There was a plurality of subject matter, just as there was in the style of the installation: a still - life on a windowsill, a pair of combat trousers drying on a radiator, an aerial view of the Arctic, a swirling stain of rose - coloured pigment, a portrait of Kate Moss, Concorde in flight, a man with a backpack in a barren landscape seemingly communicating with a small deer.
My wife and I already had a smaller deer fence around our vegetable garden (infrastructural investment is a central plank of lazivore methodology) as it is next to impossible to grow edible plants without one here in North Carolina.
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