0 a bird that migrates (= moves from one area to another when the season changes) --
At present the organization has to rely on young, inexperienced graduates who are usually birds of passage.
Parents also look for a reasonably stable staff, for how can children properly be cared for if the staff are only birds of passage?
They are gorgeous birds of passage now; they will become birds of paradise one day.
We wish to protect not only the breeding birds but also the birds of passage, who only use this country as a resting-place.
They are necessarily birds of passage, moving from one part of the world into government and out again.
In fact, we would be mere birds of passage.
In that connection, we should remember that we are but birds of passage.
They are birds of passage.
Against that, you have the man who is a bird of passage and who may have moved through three or four constituencies in the course of the last two months.
