dumb ox
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He was a nice, gentle giant-or, depending on the point of view, a big dumb ox.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneath the footstool of this "dumb ox of Sicily," as he was called, grovel the heresiarchs—Arius, Sabellius, Averroes.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
Thomas of Aquin, the great medieval writer on philosophy and theology, who still influences philosophy so much, was so slow as a young man that he was called by his fellow pupils "the dumb ox."
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
They are said to have called him the dumb one, or sometimes because of his bulkiness even as a youth, the dumb ox.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
