Since you were just a little tadpole.

You were just a skinny little tadpole-" I said.

Even at birth she is physically unusual, a "narrow-hipped, wide-shouldered little tadpole of a baby".

It's rather like pond life - little tadpoles eating even smaller ones and bigger ones eating them.

Daddy taught us to swim when we were two and we learned quickly-took to it like little tadpoles, he used to say.

The mother stripped the eggs from her legs, and one of the little tadpoles came out, but died for want of water.

The eggs hatch into little tadpoles.

What a funny little tadpole you are!

So I said well they're like little tadpoles.

Well they are like little tadpoles aren't they?