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Pigs have appeared in literature with a variety of associations, ranging from the pleasures of eating, as in Charles Lamb's A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, to William Golding's Lord of the Flies (with the fat character "Piggy"), where the rotting boar's head on a stick represents Beelzebub, "lord of the flies" being the direct translation of the ...
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This category contains English-language pig idioms. Pages in category "Metaphors referring to pigs" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
"Pigs Is Pigs" is a story by American writer Ellis Parker Butler. First published as a short story in American Illustrated Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs Is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades.
Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm.He serves as second-in-command to Napoleon and is the farm's minister of propaganda.He is described in the book as an effective and very convincing orator and a fat porker.
Guinea pig: Michael Bond: The Tales of Olga da Polga series Olga was named after the Bond family's real guinea pig. Paddy the Beaver Beaver: Thornton Burgess: The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver: An industrious beaver who builds a dam, a lodge, and a canal in the Green Forest. Poppy Peromyscus: Avi: Poppy: A deer mouse [6] who loves dancing. She ...
A weather vane in the shape of a flying pig. The phrase "when pigs fly" (alternatively, "pigs might fly") is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question (the adynaton, and the circumstances to which the adynaton is being applied) will ...
Pigs and wolves serve as allegorical races in the story, with the wolves as disenfranchised farmers and the pigs as wealthy elitists. When the blues-playing wolf suffers numerous crimes at the hands of pigs, he swears revenge and rampages through the southern underworld. The hardcover is available with a CD of its songs as sung by BB Wolf.