dumb ox

Just don't keep staring at nothing like a dumb ox.

She's a big dumb ox, but I guess the family can stand another retainer.

"Those men of which you call dumb oxes are trusted by me.

'Before he settled down for the night, this dumb ox went to the lavatory.

And the low end was probably Shota, the great dumb ox, who would count as an "eight" in any normal society.

There, does that make you feel better, you big dumb ox?"

"And dress respectable, not like some dumb ox.

He was called the Dumb Ox.

"Sure, you big dumb ox," Nippy nodded, "and while you were coming in the front door, they would have all jumped out of the windows."

"They wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to follow around a big dumb ox seeing that he does what he should already be doing."

He learned with amusement that this dunce had been nicknamed the Dumb Ox by his school-fellows.

And it is extraordinarily interesting to note that this is the one occasion when the Dumb Ox really came out like a wild bull.

He made only the request, which probably looked like an eccentric request, that he should take his Dumb Ox with him.

Call him The Big Dumb Ox.

The Dumb Ox is bellowing now; like one at bay and yet terrible and towering over all the baying pack.

You dumb ox - why don't you get that stupid look offa your pan - you gimme the heeby jeebys!

It has been suggested that Brutha is modeled on Thomas Aquinas, whom Albertus Magnus reports having been called "the dumb ox" by other students.

In the back streets of Prague, the Government's opponents have boldly chalked on walls the slogan "Jakes Jervul" - loosely translated, "Jakes, the dumb ox."

But to make a digest, in the tabloid manner, of the Dumb Ox of Sicily passes all digestive experiments in the matter of an ox in a tea-cup.

Merely cracked overhead, a whip could inspire the dumbest ox to greater effort; the same held true for the most obstinate mule when being urged on by a muleskinner, the bullwhacker's counterpart on a mule train.

When Thomas failed his first theological disputation, Albertus prophetically exclaimed: "We call him the dumb ox, but in his teaching he will one day produce such a bellowing that it will be heard throughout the world."

His early education was received at the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, and attended the University of Naples, where he earned the nickname "dumb ox" for his slow demeanor, even though he was a very talented student of rhetoric, logic, and natural science.

At the same time, although he much liked Maritain as a person (as who could not?), he felt that the French post-Bergsonian intellectual approach, even if called 'Neo-scholastique', differed markedly from that of St Thomas himself: it was the difference between a hovering darting kestrel and a 'dumb ox' pawing the ground.