Sentences with phrase «thick as an elephant»

Her skin must have been as thick as an elephant's to have put up with all the crap she had to face.

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In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

They are thick communities, where students and teachers celebrate and suffer together; where you know when someone is having a bad day and ask what you can do to help; where in the classroom adventure and risk, cheers, and even embarrassment are experienced directly; where the wrinkle of a brow and what is not said mean just as much as what is spoken; and where disagreement can squat in the room like the elephant it usually is and not be mouse - clicked away.

The handle of this fork was about as thick as a little finger and was decorated with three elephant heads.

The thick forestlands are home to the endangered Bengal tiger and serve as an important migration corridor for elephants.

Elephants — they're huge and galumphing, they have thick skin and the ever - odd (and wonderful) dangling appendage known as a trunk.