Partridge has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The expression “as for the story, the partridge landed on it” is actually a very old idiom, which is used in connection with someone who has committed a crime; when you ask him about it, he doesn't even answer you! We then say that the partridge (or the hen) has landed on it. | |
| 2. | There's no partridge in that pear tree. | |
| 3. | Being apprehensive lest he might commit more mischief and break my plants, I sprang forward to seize him, but the little rogue skipt lightly from me, sometimes gliding between the rose-trees, and sometimes hiding himself like a young partridge under the poppies. | |
| 4. | Partridge meat is better than chicken meat. | |
| 5. | The pheasant, the bustard, the deaf wild peacock, the moorhen, the partridge, the woodcock and the thrush are said to be delicacies. | |
| 6. | "Skura" is derived from the Berber word "tasekkurt" which means "partridge." | |
| 7. | An expression says: as for that story, the partridge landed on it. | |
| 8. | Even in legends, anyone who has secretly eaten a partridge must wipe his mouth. The others must not know it, otherwise they would call him to account. |