Jonathan Brandis

When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

American Actor

Jenny Zhang

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

Chinese Actress

Thomas Huxley

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

English Scientist

Used in rural or farming environments where scaring birds from crops is important.

Agricultural Context

Scarecrows are a symbol of autumn, harvest time, and rural life in many cultures.

Cultural Symbol

A scarecrow is an object, not a living person, even though it's made to look human-like.

Non-living Identifier

Describes someone's appearance, not their personality or intelligence.

Metaphorical Use

Evokes a vivid image of extreme thinness and poor, tattered clothing.

Visual Imagery

When used for people, it's not literal but a descriptive way of emphasizing their look.

Not Literal

 his vitals with scarecrows filled with water melons and eggs and tomatoes and that's to act like the internal parts of the body and it'll tell us how that body would survive during this explosion rod and Chris from the bomb squad are wiring up the car with a pound of explosives

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 because it was even helping the lions to see through the cowshed. So I didn't give up. I continued. And a second idea I got was to use a scarecrow. I was trying to trick the lions that I was standing near the cowshed.