OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 56481

bird of passage

/ˌbɜːd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ave pasajera
A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”).
And now the ladies, with their gay plumage, have flown away like foreign birds of passage, and the jolly old priests of Bacchus, in the parlour, make their libations of claret; […]
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