They are commensal meaning they "share man's table" Our food is their food.
In the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice," the phrase "rubbed rubbed away" refers to the mice's tails being cut off ("Their tails were snipped by the farmer's wife, she cut them off as clean as life"). The rubbing away could signify the removal of the tails in a swift or forceful manner.
It is believed that adding sugar to the water for cut flowers provides the flowers with a food source since the flowers have been literally "cut off" from their food supply.
Britain sank German merchant ships.
Anne Frank and the others had to cut back on their food rations because they were in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and food was scarce. By rationing their food supply, they were able to make it last longer and survive in hiding without drawing attention to their location.
carving knife
They ran after the Farmer's Wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
what is a homophone for cut away
The farmer's wife cut off the tails of the three blind mice, using a carving knife. This would be regarded as animal cruelty outside of the context of the traditional nursery rhyme.
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Sparta cut off all of their food supply. Then they found out they were still having food delivered to them from the sea so they severed them from having food gave up in the Peloponnesian War
"She cut off their tails with a carving knife."
After u cut hay in a field