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"Partridge" in a Sentence (13 examples)
There's no partridge in that pear tree.
Being apprehensive lest he might commit more mischief and break my plants, I sprang forward to seize him, but the little rogue skipt lightly from me, sometimes gliding between the rose-trees, and sometimes hiding himself like a young partridge under the poppies.
Partridge meat is better than chicken meat.
The pheasant, the bustard, the deaf wild peacock, the moorhen, the partridge, the woodcock and the thrush are said to be delicacies.
The name "Skura" is derived from "tasekkurt" which is Berber for partridge.
"Skura" is derived from the Berber word "tasekkurt" which means "partridge."
An expression says: as for that story, the partridge landed on it.
Even in legends, anyone who has secretly eaten a partridge must wipe his mouth. The others must not know it, otherwise they would call him to account.
The expression “as for the story, the partridge landed on it” is actually a very old idiom, which is used in connection with someone who has committed a crime; when you ask him about it, he doesn't even answer you! We then say that the partridge (or the hen) has landed on it.
It looks like a partridge.
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On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.
...and the loudest sound in the lonely fields was when, adventuring too near some late brood, the partridge sought to deceive by a plaintive cry and seeming helplessness, crossing before your very feet, till, when drawn to a sufficient distance, suddenly the air vibrated to the flutter of her active pinions.
Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
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