17 Metaphors for jays

The blue jay is a shy bird, but he is enough of a crow to take a risk where anything is to be had for it, and in winter will come close to the house for food.

SAMMY JAY IS GLAD HE SAT UP ALL NIGHT IX.

Nothing happens in the deep wood that the blue jays are not all agog to tell.

"'One more question,' said Crosby'who put it into your heart to deliver me?' "'Jay is your friend,' said she,waving her head'farewell.'

No jay becomes an eagle by borrowing a few eagle feathers.

The Family sometimes said that Jay was an idealist, but it did not really think so.

Mr. P.A. Jay is a member of the club, so I see him every Friday evening.

The jay was the king of the smaller birds.

Jay was "a slave, a traitor, a coward, who had bartered his country's liberties for British gold."

The Blue Jay is a true American; he is known throughout this continent, and never visits any other country.

From that time, as Franklin suffered from a severe illness, Jay was the life of the negotiations, and the credit is generally given to him for the treaty which followed, and which was hurried through hastily for fear that a change in the British ministry would hazard its success.

JAY, WILLIAM, eminent Congregationalist minister, born in Wiltshire; was first a stone-mason, but entered the ministry, and after a short term of service near Chippenham was pastor of Argyle Chapel, Bath, for 62 years.

The blue jay is a near relative of the crow, and, like him, omnivorous, harsh-voiced, predaceous, a robber of birds' nests; so that if you hear the robins during their nesting-time making an unusual clamor about the house, the chances are you will get a glimpse of this brilliant marauder, sneaking away with a troop of them in pursuit.

Mr. Jay is, beyond a doubt, the leading criminal in this business, and he will probably run the chief risk,that of changing the fifty-pound note.

Of his three predecessors, Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth, the second, Rutledge, after sitting one term under a recess appointment, retired in consequence of his rejection by the Senate; and neither Jay nor Ellsworth, though both were men of high capacity, had found in their judicial station, the full importance of which was unforeseen, an opportunity for the full display of their powers, either of mind or of office.

Jay was then chief-justice, but the crisis was so dangerous as to justify Washington in calling him even from that important post.

Thus some will say, "A jay is a sort of a bird;" whereas they ought to say, "The jay is a sort of bird."

17 Metaphors for  jays