roof-snake
noun
(Especially in Asia) a snake that habitually lives or hunts in the roof of a building.
- Colubrid snakes that frequent roofs include (in southern Asia) the wolf snake, Lycodon aulicus, and (in eastern Asia) the rat snake, Elaphe schrenckii..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature.
- cut the corner
- cut the crap
- cut the Gordian knot
- cut the ground from under someone's feet
- cut the mustard
- cut the (umbilical) cord
- cut-throat
- cut-throat finch
- cut-throat razor
- cut-throat trout
- cut-throat weaver
- cut time
- cutting
- cutting edge
- cutting grass
- cutting horse
- cuttingly
- cutting room
- cuttle
- cuttlebone
- cuttlefish
- cut to the chase
- cutty
- Cutty Sark
- cutty-stool