baa-lamb

“Our little family of Hays, Lodges, Camerons and Roosevelts, has been absolutely devoted to each other, and as I was the one to be lost, I came in for most of the baa-lamb treatment,” he wrote to a friend.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

“Our little family of Hays, Lodges, Camerons and Roosevelts, has been absolutely devoted to each other, and as I was the one to be lost, I came in for most of the baa-lamb treatment,” he wrote to a friend.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

I couldn't have believed it of him, even with that silly little baa-lamb.

The Invader A Novel

In clarion tones that made themselves heard above the din Emily Davis was advertising an auction of her animals, beginning with "one perfectly good baa-lamb."

Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

I don't pretend to be any baa-lamb, and maybe I'm a little cross-grained at breakfast sometimes, but the way they go on jab-jab-jabbering, I simply can't stand it.

Babbitt 1922

I don’t pretend to be any baa-lamb, and maybe I’m a little cross-grained at breakfast sometimes, but the way they go on jab-jab-jabbering, I simply can’t stand it.

Chapter 2 1922

I think I'm being a baa-lamb, and not springing any theories wilder than ` c-a-t spells cat, 'but when folks have gone, I re'lize I've been stepping on their pet religious corns.

Main Street 1920

John privately informed his friend that any fellow of twelve -- and he must be that if he wasn't thirteen -- who would wear a white collar and velvet rig-up like that to school must be a baa-lamb, and ought to stay home and sit on his mother's knee.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

You're a meek little baa-lamb, but you've got lots of stuff in you, old Wrennski.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

I don't pretend to be any baa-lamb, and maybe I'm a little cross-grained at breakfast sometimes, but the way they go on jab-jab-jabbering, I simply can't stand it.

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918