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Definition of pond life in English: pond lifenoun mass noun1The animals, especially the invertebrates, that live in ponds or stagnant water. pupils can discover aspects of pond life for themselves Example sentencesExamples - Monitor all pond life carefully for diseases and parasites.
- Water gardens are ponds having water falls, pond plants and pond life like exotic fishes.
- Planted at the bottom of the pond, they produce fronds that add oxygen and encourage other beneficial pond life.
- The public's help is needed to put plants in the pond which will keep the water healthy for wildlife and create new habitats for pond life.
- It isn't a big pond, but it has fair number of fish and other pond life living in it.
2British informal A contemptible or worthless person or group of people. gangs of foul-mouthed pond life Example sentencesExamples - He responded by labelling the paper as 'the methane gas rising from the pond life of Irish journalism'.
- These 'pond life' should apparently be alternately sterilized, publicly flogged, or wiped off the face of the earth altogether.
- Typically, they'd have nothing to do with spammers, the 'pond life' of the Internet.
- They are the lowest form of political pond life and we do not need them.
- They are highly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond life nevertheless.
- We should exterminate 'em with all the other pond life.
- But nowadays the people who throng it are now largely a sort of traveling pond life.
- Are you pond life or a platinum partner?
- I'm all for looking for the best in people, but I think you can safely define someone as pond life when they can't even be bothered to smoke properly.
- Anyway, I hate literary critics - pond life the lot of 'em.
- We work hard all year to try and give our kids a decent Christmas and this pond life has to try and spoil things for others.
- It would be nice to see Yorkshire "ladies" kicking him into the North Sea where pond life like him belong.
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