Rachel Bloom

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

American Actress

Leslie Mann

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

American Actor

Washington Irving

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

American Writer

Shrews are often used to represent agility and quickness in nature-focused texts.

Natural Habitat

In stories, a 'shrew' character may embody slyness or resourcefulness.

Metaphorical Use

Remember, shrews resemble mice but are not rodents, a fact sometimes mentioned in scientific contexts.

Not a Rodent

Calling a woman a 'shrew' is old-fashioned and usually offensive.

Old-fashioned Term

'The Taming of the Shrew' by Shakespeare is a famous play, often discussed in literature classes.

Literary Reference

Avoid using 'shrew' in formal settings, as it may come across as impolite or sexist.

Not for Formal Use

 A handful of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious a menstrual cycle. We're one of the select few. Monkeys, apes, bats, humans, and possibly elephant shrews are the only mammals on Earth that menstruate. We also do it more than any other animal,

Why do women have...

 there are two toxins which are in clinical trials for cancer one of them I mentioned it's coming from a shrew venom and I think it's from a very cancer and the second one is coming from a scorpion toxin where this toxin helps to deliver

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 shrew is run around like crazy for about a year and then fall over dead like this poor fella this shrew is no more it rests in peace or does it is this a death rattle or is the shrew actually you know coming back

Burying Beetles PIPE...

 the Shrew poo-poos the stiff he wants a piece of that live scorpion which is why this segment is now called when truths attack scorpions the Scorpions venom could easily kill true but the shrew has the lightning

Cannibal Scorpions vs....

 enough to cause the live scorpion to abandon his booty and hide itself the shrew poo-poos the stiff he wants a piece of that live scorpion which is why this segment is now called when truths attack scorpion

 It was the water shrew. Yeah. Which has venomous saliva, which when it bites, it injects into its prey to stun it and to paralyse it. But I've got to say that venomous mammals are very, very rare

The Killer Rat with...

 developed caring for the young is a crucial part of the mammals winning design something few reptiles do a mother shrew will even quench her baby's thirst with her own saliva if necessary

Ferocious Shrews Fight...

 a year and then fall over dead like this poor fella this shrew is no more it rests in peace or does it is this a death rattle or is the shrew actually you know coming back

 a year and then fall over dead like this poor fella this shrew is no more it rests in peace or does it is this a death rattle or is the Shrew actually

Burying Beetles Turn...

 When the skies cleared, a new world was born. A world fit for mammals. From tiny shrews tenrecs, accustomed to the dark.

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