Synonyms for sacred cow

Long a sacred cow, it has lately become the eye of a controversy.

And how in the name of the sacred cow did the deed get in the seat of this one?

The temple was dedicated to the goddess Athor, and her emblem was a sacred cow.

We had to stop before every tree, every pagoda, every sacred tank and bush, and at last before a sacred cow.

The pigs were nobody's concern, but cattle—the brothers of the Cow, the Sacred Cow—were quite otherwise.

Well, for the love of cats, Andy Rush, what in the name of the sacred cow is the matter now?

I found that out when I put a paper of cayenne pepper into a head of lettuce and gave it to the sacred cow.

Persistently a sacred cow of India, tethered in a recess of the fence where herbage sprouted, mooed for an absent mate.

The first day brought us into the region of buffalo, one of which Sacred Cow killed.

Tim came, too, and when he wasnt busy, Joan told him she had interviewed a Sacred Cow.