Curiously, a sheep that is kept not to be eaten but to be shorn does attract rate relief.
There is no demand for the old game of reviling a landed aristocracy, now shorn of its privileges and, alas, of most of its cash.
Well, if the landlord, confronted with this final offer, gives way, he is shorn at once of his property.
Could we not temper the wind to these shorn lambs by extending the period over which abolition might be effected?
He said that we must temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
The lamb will be shorn, for certain, in one way or another.
In other words, can the court temper the wind to the shorn lamb?
Production would be interrupted by the temporary disorganisation caused by requisitioning, and although shorn of its tangible assets, the company would still remain in being.
