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In short, Brissenden struck Martin as anaemic and feather-brained, and was promptly dismissed from his mind.
Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head.
The feather-brain has decided he's a pooch after being taken in by a kindly family when he fell from his nest and nearly died.
Experts reckon the feather-brain has been fooled by the warm autumn into staying put.
But though she comes wrapped in garish ostrich plumes, Margarita is no feather-brain.
SHE admits that some of her friends think it's a feather-brained idea.
ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE U EGGS-CRUCIATING, feather-brained - there's plenty of bird-themed gags to describe the movie version of the hit app.
Francis Watson Armstrong, owner of Bamburgh Castle, said: "Far from being a feather-brained scheme, we were very keen at Bamburgh to support a project that protects and conserves the majestic barn owl - my favourite national bird species.
Rating French Women Don't Get Facelifts: The Secret Of Ageing With Style And Attitude by Mireille Guiliano Publisher: Corgi Press, PS8.99, ebook PS3.95 DON'T be fooled by Mme Guiliano's seemingly feather-brained little book of lifestyle advice for older women - now in paperback and the sequel to French Women Don't Get Fat.
And despite the best efforts of locals to entice it down with fruit and tasty nibbles the feather-brained bird just wouldn't budge.
Anxious Call us feather-brains, but we were still yet to see the six-inch celebrity.
Washington, Sept 26 (ANI): Birds are far from feather-brained, when it comes to building nests, a new research has shown.
*** Sex and the City 2 (15) Vacuously glossy, occasionally witty but feather-brained faux feminist sequel as Carrie and her selfabsorbed chums go to the Middle East.
The casino setting made it harder to recognize Adriana, the courtesan, and the abbess as agents who break out of doors, at least temporarily, to drive the action in the latter part of the play, and doomed the resourceful courtesan to be played once more as a feather-brained (and feather-clad) bimbo.
A FEATHER-BRAINED recruit joined British squaddies in Iraq yesterday - an off- course racing pigeon.
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