boa constrictor
Noun
Meaning
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
boa-constrictor
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there.
The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
It is what the eyes of one man sees that is described as a boa constrictor.