The word today is 'HOOFED': dictionary.com
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“An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.” -proverb.
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"You've been hoofed by an army of crickets?" asked Hercule while chopping a few 'poireaux' for his famous Belgian waterzooi.
ReplyDelete"Yes, my leonine instincts told me to run but it was too late. I got stuck in a bug soup and almost died. Are you going to help me find them?" replied Agatha Maple, all sugar and seduction.
"Mmmm...mon estomac may be a little to sensitive for this one, my dear. Maybe you should ask Chief Superintendant Lennon. He specializes in beatles...."
“An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.”
ReplyDeleteWhoever wrote that, has clearly not seen a stag in full bellowing, charging, horned, rutting mode!
Let's look at the proposition. An army of deer, with a lion in charge? Well, that would very soon become an army of deer with one fewer in their ranks. Numerically that would not be a disaster perhaps, but their commanding officer snoozing off the effects of his free meal would be.
An army of lions commanded by a stag? Well, they would ROAR and BELLOW their way to victory if nothing else - it would put the fear of God into any opponents who strayed into hearing distance. Of course, one of the lions might take a fancy to a meal of stag, but once he put his horns down and charged, that lion would very probably have second thoughts and show a lot of respect to his commander from then on.
"Hoofed animals are not the helpless ungulates they are sometimes thought to be" (Tidverb)