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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 ...
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.
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"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.
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 ...
Pigs can use their knowledge of other pig perspectives to their own advantage and even to influence others' behavior. [1] In one study, pigs used their theory of mind skills to mislead other pigs away from food rewards. [1] Like corvids and primates, pigs are capable of tactical deception. [15] [16] Pigs can figure where humans are looking and ...
Pig: Steve Vai: Piggies Piggies: The Beatles: A 1968 Beatles song written by George Harrison where the little pigs are whacked down and eaten by bigger pigs. It has been interpreted as a metaphor for human nature, though throughout the songs actual pig sounds are heard as well. Pigs in Zen Pigs in Zen: Jane's Addiction: A song from their debut ...
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 ...