mountain mockingbird
US
noun
The sage thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus (family Mimidae), a streaked, migratory, thrush-like bird that breeds on the sagebrush plains of western North America.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
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- take the words out of someone's mouth
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- take time by the forelock
- take to
- take to one's bed
- take to one's heels
- take to something like a duck to water
- take to the bush
- take to the road (or take the road)
- take turns (or take it in turns)
- take-up
- take up arms
- take up (or pick up) the baton
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- cut corners
- cut-down
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- cutely
- cuteness
- cutesiness
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