Hydra

"The lizard dares to face the hydra." is like "Someone is attacking an ash tree with a sickle," one of our friends tells us.

"The lizard dares to face the hydra" means something like "Someone is attacking a mountain with a hoe", says another of our friends.

"The lizard dares to face the hydra" means something like "His opponent is too strong for him to face."

Hydra is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Algiers.

Nothing in nature is immortal, but some clams can live centuries and a tiny freshwater creature called a hydra lives a very long time, at least until its pond dries up.

Because the statute is so vaguely worded, award decisions are habitually based on case law, the growing mountain of which is a hydra of rulings that point in so many directions that almost any decision can be defended or overturned on appeal, depending on how smart your lawyer is and which precedent he selects to argue your case.

At night I lie dry-eyed on my little bed and turn my head to and fro to catch sight of one little star by one little star along the tail of Hydra, and think you are alive, you survive. Is this not what you wanted?