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Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, whose party symbol is a black cockerel , is crowing loud and hard.
Indeed Lawler believes he has found an explanation for the legend of the basilisk, a terrifying serpent said to hatch from an egg laid by a cockerel.
Without the explosion of aniline-, chrome- and cadmium-based colours, many fledgling industries would have been severely handicapped and works of art from Renoir's "The Skiff" to Katarina Fritsch's giant blue cockerel sculpture in Trafalgar Square would have been impossible.
They saw this as a threat (Nyimpine Chissano is known as the "son of the cockerel").
It is not unusual for football teams, for example, to employ a witchdoctor, and football matches often begin with a team ritual, such as the slaughter of a white cockerel in the goalmouth.In most of Africa, the world of spirits is reached through spirit mediums, individuals (often women) who can interpret dreams and guide people in placating the spirits.
THE French cockerel and the German eagle have strutted together for so long that few took much notice of this week's 50th anniversary of the Elysée treaty that sealed their partnership in 1963.
A creature in a tree, half-boy, half-hedgehog, plays the bagpipes, mounted on a cockerel.
Their counterparts in China, who describe the islands as the missing detail on the crest of the cockerel that China's map vaguely resembles, naturally want more.
Coinage for the French colonies such as the Cameroons, French West Africa and Equatorial Africa, Madagascar, and French Togoland, showed the French cockerel or the head of "Marianne" (emblem of the spirit of the French Revolution) and was in general more standardized than in the British colonies.
Then came six enormous horses ridden by men in full armour, their visors down and their helmets surmounted by a cockerel , a bear, a lion and other symbols of the "dead" contrade, disbanded now but not forgotten.
It wasn't long ago, they helpfully remind me, that the vain little French cockerel made a right old fool of himself courtesy of an embarrassing "dizzy spell" during an ill-fated attempt to comply to his glamorous wife's newly enforced fitness regime.
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The word "cockerel" functions primarily as a noun . It denotes a young male chicken, and as Ludwig shows, it is used in diverse contexts ranging from news reports to literary texts.
Expression frequency: Very common
