Anyway, I hear the expression eats like a bird is really a false... Falsity. Because birds really eat a tremendous lot.
13 seconds sound clip from the Psycho (1960) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:35:41 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- But I don't really know anything about birds.
- My hobby is stuffing things. You know, taxidermy.
- Some people even stuff dogs and cats, but, oh, I can't do that.
- I think only birds look well stuffed because... Well, because they're kind of passive to begin with.
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