This vivid image led to the popular phrase "bury your head in the sand" to describe when someone ... look like they have their heads buried. Ostriches also spend most of their time with their ...

The English language is very rich and descriptive. Someone “hiding their head in the sand, like an ostrich” is said to be foolishly ignoring their problem, while hoping it will magically vanish.

Investigators speculate the ostrich may have caught its head underneath a fence, then been stepped on by another bird. The missing part may be buried in the sandy soil, McDonough said. Reports of ...

An ostrich is a gigantic bird with great legs. So just imagine how ridiculous it would look with its powerful legs bent, its tiny head buried in the sand and its massive backside jutting in the air.

So when a federal appeals judge wanted to rebuke attorneys for completely ignoring a precedent in case filings, he used pictures to liken them to an ostrich with its head in the sand. In an ...

It seems Prime Minister John Key has put in a late entry for Forest and Bird's annual "Bird of the Year" contest - the ostrich. Key's entry is in apparent breach of the rules, which require the ...