says Barrow, “enters with impunity into the mouth of the crocodile. This is to pick from the teeth a leech which greatly torments the creature.
“Not half so bold
The puny bird that dares, with teasing hum,
Within the crocodile’s stretched jaws to come.”
Thomas Moore-Lalla Rookh, pt. i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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