prick-eared

Prior to 1990, finding RETs (also called red-eared sliders) in the UK was a lot more difficult.

For those of you who believe in following the money, prick up your ears.

Prick the bladder with a needle every so often,” she advises sagely, “to keep it from exploding.

The columnist was a royal prick, but he had this soft spot for Damon Runyon, who was dying at the time.

The prick of conscience she has alerts us to the fact that she is different from Francis—or just at a different stage of her life.

Then they continue to prick the body, and, as they say, they draw off or suck out the humors until the body is left dry.

I did think uh tryin' t' get off with their hosses, but I figured it wouldn't pay with that sharp-eared cuss on the watch.

She ain't all greyhound; but the best man as ever I knew always said there never was a prick-eared one a bad 'un.

This time I had my ankus with me, so that in case he should run away again I could prick his neck and make him behave.

In Stanley's experience one man died within a minute, from a mere pin prick in the breast.