Sentence examples for and the hide of from inspiring English sources

Learn to have the soul of an angel and the hide of an armadillo.

Small wonder that one Soviet ballerina, Lyudmila Semenyaka, said that to survive at the Bolshoi, you have to have "the teeth of a tiger and the hide of a dinosaur".

The man who led England into their home World Cup in mid-September – a grim adventure that was done and dusted long before mid-October – must have a backbone the width of the M3 and the hide of an elderly rhino, just to be playing at all.

Breaking news from Rasdorf, Germany: Late last month, this farming village of some 1,500 souls was literally shocked when a shed housing 90 cows spontaneously burst into flames that singed the shed's roof and the hide of one unlucky beast (who was later treated for burns).

All food had to be consumed on the premises, and the hides of the sacrificed animals were hung on the trees.

As with many buildings in Europe, the Petschek villa is scored and crossed, like the hide of a whale, with the history of its accidents.

You've got to really want it [and] have the hide of a rhino".

For more than 30 years, he has been scraping, drying, freezing and stretching the hides of deer, antelope, elk and mountain goat.

Flies and mosquitoes settle on roadside carts of fruit and atop the hides of wandering goats.

Recently, in the framework of the above-mentioned kinetic approach, a generic model has been proposed for the learning ability of effector cells and for the hiding of tumour cells [ 41].

If training and observing the hiding of the food had contrary effects, then we would expect that apes in the third group would show no preference for any of the two strategies.