Assertion: weasel | /r/CapableOf | suck egg
Facets:
value: from bird's eggs
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Why, weasel words are words that suck all the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell.
text: The expression first appeared in Stewart Chaplin's short story "Stained Glass Political Platform" (published in 1900 in The Century Magazine), in which weasel words were described as "words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell".
text: It has long been a widespread belief that weasels suck the yolks from bird's eggs, leaving only the empty shell.
text: The relevant passage reads "Why, weasel words are words that suck all the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell.
text: Why, weasel words are words that suck all the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell.
text: This is believed to have come from the idea that weasels suck eggs; so weasel words are those in which the meaning is sucked out.
text: As You Like It, in which the author includes similes of weasels sucking eggs.
text: There is now some doubt amongst naturalists as to whether weasels do suck eggs.
text: Nevertheless, the belief that weasels suck eggs has lingered for centuries.
text: When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg," claimed the ex-president at a 1916 speech.
text: As You Like It, in which the author includes similes of weasels sucking eggs.
text: As You Like It, in which the author includes similes of weasels sucking eggs.
text: You’ll find that old Will enjoys talking about weasels sucking eggs because in
text: … can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs“.
text: The expression first appeared in Stewart Chaplin's short story "Stained Glass Political Platform" (published in 1900 in The Century Magazine), in which weasel words were described as "words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell".
text: The expression first appeared in Stewart Chaplin's short story "Stained Glass Political Platform" (published in 1900 in The Century Magazine), in which weasel words were described as "words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell".