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Discover LudwigThe phrase "cuckoo for" is not typically used as a part of a sentence in written English.
It is more commonly used as a standalone phrase or in colloquial speech. It is often used to express great enthusiasm or obsession for something. Example: "I'm cuckoo for chocolate chip cookies. I could eat them all day every day."
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Fill in the blank: "I go cuckoo for _____".
Second, my test Nests were cuckoo for the first couple of weeks.
It can be silly (General Mills' "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs") or serious (William Safire's "nattering nabobs of negativism").
We're not going to ignore legitimate news stories even though they may seem a little cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Before long you'll be ricocheting around the state sounding like that bird who goes cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
CUCKOO FOR COCOA The Body Shop's Chocomania line of bath products will become available in February, just in time for Valentine's Day.
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Let's say the cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs commentators are correct.
Cuckoos, for example, normally time their annual returns from Africa to make use of nests built by local birds, which then rear their young.
Reed warblers, which have evolved side by side with cuckoos for thousands of years, no longer fall for the ruse.
Furthermore, we experimentally test egg discrimination abilities in parrotbills to assess host defence mechanisms, and thereby selection on cuckoos for evolving mimetic eggs.
Theoretically, such high interclutch variation in host egg appearance may lead to frequency-dependent selection among cuckoos for utilizing the most common host egg phenotype [21,22, Vikan JR, Fossøy F, Huhta E, Moksnes A, Røskaft E, Stokke BG, unpubl. data].
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