Sentence examples for as a cock from inspiring English sources

The judge described Halliwell's account of Godden being buried in the field by two drug dealers as a "cock and bull story".

She wore a rivet-studded bracelet that Paolo was alarmed to recognize as a cock ring, and combat boots, which would probably never go out of style in certain contexts.

In the same sort of way, we find that animals are at one point dismissed as "dumb creatures", only to see that people are continually presented in images that draw attention to their creaturely qualities: people are variously described as being "as conceited as a cock upon a wall", or as filthy as rats, or as leaping like a cat upon a mouse, or as rising early like an early bird, etc.

He woke before sunrise, as a cock'scrow tore at the silence and the darkness.

In proverbs such as "A cock's aye crouse on his ain midden" Scotland's tough, sardonic history is distilled.

His cock was as hard as a cock should be.

Boris Johnson has scrapped guidance stopping his senior staff at City Hall contradicting his opinions in favour of leaving the European Union, describing it as a cock-up.

For them, explosions are as common as a cock-crow.De-miners are rarely killed, but if they wear their helmets at a jaunty angle, the shock from a blast can break their necks.

In South Pacific itself, the character Nellie Forbush leads the dance as a cock-eyed optimist, and the nation adopted "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" and "Happy Talk" as part of their everyday conversation.

Hammers manager Harry Redknapp has described the entire saga as "a cock-up" which could cost his side millions of pounds given a place in Europe is at stake for the overall victors of the competition.

Ellis initially wanted the Hammers to be thrown out of the Worthington Cup for what West Ham's manager Harry Redknapp described as "a cock-up", but after lengthy discussions with the West Ham chairman Terry Brown, the League secretary David Dent and the Premier League chairman Dave Richards - acting as arbiter - he backed down.