dumb ox
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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
He was a nice, gentle giant-or, depending on the point of view, a big dumb ox.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tradition says he was a taciturn and seemingly dull boy, derisively nicknamed by his fellows "the dumb ox," but admired by his teachers.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
But Bull's own bull, the English bull, is "a dumb ox of thought"; a standing mystification in the mind.
From A Short History of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
