A circus moved from town to town, putting on shows with trained animals, acrobats doing difficult tricks, and funny, colorful clowns.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
MPs who have enjoyed the chance to debate prisoner voting, Hillsborough, an EU referendum, the treatment of circusanimals and all the other issues it has facilitated, should beware, at least a little.
Twenty yards behind the cow, which now and then jumped awkwardly, crept this adolescent lion, which did not appear to be excited or even very much interested, as though the two of them were circusanimals trained to act out a scene.
My mind defaulted to circus images of animals (me, most notably) jumping through hoops every time they re-entered my sales office throughout what might be a five-month period while their home was being built.