seed-snipe
鹬蚌相争,鹬蚌相争渔翁得利
Definitions
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- : any of several South American birds of the family Thinocoridae, related to the shorebirds but superficially resembling quail.
Examples
Famously, Ted Turner in 1997 founded the United Nations Foundation with a generous $1 billion in seed money.
He said he hoped their “shed blood [would] act as a seed of hope in order to build authentic brotherhood among peoples.”
When you were setting out to work on The Giver, what planted the seed for this dark, utopian society?
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions—on a sesame seed bun.
In 1954, no one had met anyone like her, or the novel that contained her: ‘The Bad Seed.’
The seed of discontent was again germinating under the duplicity of the Spanish lay and clerical authorities.
The color (p. 027) of the seed also varies according to the varieties of the plant.
The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
When the man turned bad on his hands, Jahweh was angry, and cursed him and his seed for thousands of years.
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.