Sentence examples for like a cuckoo from inspiring English sources

The tumour squeezes the brain out like a cuckoo".

Yesterday, Mr Alexander was to be seen sitting alongside his boss, George Osborne, just like a cuckoo in a cloud.

In other words, Sandel insists that market values crowd out all other values like a cuckoo in the nest.

And now, like a cuckoo in the nest, the cult of celebrity is starving fashion of attention.

His description of Barclays office politics, as BZW grew like a cuckoo in the nest, is instructive, terrifying and wonderfully entertaining.

Grillshack is different – a proto-chain, owned by London's richest restaurant magnate, sitting like a cuckoo in a nest of cool independents on a hip Soho food street.

When you do, the hanger retreats to its nook, like a cuckoo-clock bird backing away after singing its quick, dutiful alarm.

Long-frozen bodies moved oddly, mechanically, like wobbly figures in a cuckoo clock, impelled by forces other than their own will.

Royalists, social democrats, moderate Communists, less moderate Communists, entirely immoderate Communists -- they have taken turns in the foreground like revolving figurines in a cuckoo clock.

Because otherwise, watching Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1932 Broadway hit, "Music in the Air," which runs through Sunday, is rather like being imprisoned in a cuckoo clock.

Mo's head sprang back through the window like a malicious cuckoo from a Swiss clock.