In my experience, even performing poodles in circuses usually require an order before they do anything.
You cannot hunt the fox with a pack of poodles.
At the press conference last week, a gentleman from the press asked whether we regarded ourselves as poodles of the agencies.
Their heads shake, but they are definitely not poodles.
If they become poodles, the fishermen and others may demand that they take a visit to the vets, with a rather nasty outcome.
Should poodles be exercised with retrievers or spaniels with tame elephants?
They are in no sense the poodles of any political party.
If the erosion of the function of watchdog over the executive continues much further, we are likely to be reduced to a pack of whining, impotent poodles.
