the bleating of the kid excites the tiger
- the bleating of the kid excites the tiger
The victim’s cries of distress stir up the predator; Kipling took the idea, in a story about schoolboys giving bullies a taste of their own medicine, from Francis Galton’s The Art of Travel (1855; ‘one of the forms had been studying that pleasant work’).
1899 KIPLING ‘Moral Reformers’ in Stalky & Co Ruffle his hair, Turkey. Now you get down, too. ‘The bleatin’ of the kid excites the tiger.’
1921 F. HAMILTON Here, There and Everywhere 13 I have a strong suspicion that the unhappy goats played a part..and that they were tethered in different parts of the jungle, for, as we all know, ‘the bleating of the kid excites the tiger.’
2006 Jewish Russian Telegraph 21 Feb. (online) Serial apologies too numerous to count, $50 million thrown to his tormentors in an attempt to make the issue go away..—none of this worked. It never works. On the contrary, once again the bleat of the lamb excited the tiger.
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bleating — see the bleating of the kid excites the tiger a bleating sheep loses a bite … Proverbs new dictionary
tiger — see better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep the bleating of the kid excites the tiger he who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount … Proverbs new dictionary
kid — see the bleating of the kid excites the tiger … Proverbs new dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
lamb — see the bleating of the kid excites the tiger God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb one might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb … Proverbs new dictionary
excite — see the bleating of the kid excites the tiger … Proverbs new dictionary
