play ostrich

Now tell me what's got you playing ostrich or I'm leaving.

Too much pain to tug them loose; time to play ostrich.

I should know - playing ostrich is a habit I've inherited from him!

Instead he continues to play ostrich about the alarming budget deficit.

The generals are all playing ostrich with their heads stuck in the last war.

The murderer might quite as well have played ostrich and buried his head in the sand along the beach.

In order not to fight head-on with her, he has been playing ostrich in their seven years of marriage.

"In a brutal economy," says Rick, "some businesses play ostrich and get run over.

Procter and other companies are not playing ostrich.

But playing ostrich and burying her head in the sand carried the same risks as making blind assumptions.

Yet playing ostrich was dangerous, especially for Timmy.

“Some of my countrymen have been playing ostrich.

We have not been playing ostrich.

"We would be playing ostrich if we just chose to ignore these potential problem areas," Ms. Kelley said.

"NASA until very recently played ostrich," she said.

The gist of the message was Play Ostrich - clean your brain, blot out reality in order to make it go away.

Dad may be playing ostrich, but you're clucking round the family business like a jealous hen -'

Playing ostrich about harm reduction does not harm only IDUs.

Having trailed along from one spot to another, Jud was at present playing ostrich behind an evening newspaper at the far side of the little restaurant.

Broy just didn't realize that he was playing ostrich, laying himself open for identification, by assuming what was now his best-known pose.

Quebec Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau is not playing ostrich.

For now, Brochu is playing ostrich, not thinking about the very real possibility that the owners will fail to enact revenue sharing and a salary cap.

'Dad's playing ostrich.

The US Plays Ostrich.

And just as frequently described as a forbidding mother, chilly and withholding and given to playing ostrich whenever it comes to emotions.