buzzard

between hawk and buzzard

Caught between two extremes or two factions. The settlers on the border of the two warring states found themselves caught between hawk and buzzard.
See also: and, between, buzzard, hawk

buzzard meat

Someone or something that is dead or obsolete. If my brother catches us messing with his stuff, we'll be buzzard meat!
See also: buzzard, meat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

buzzard

n. an old man; a mean old man. (Especially with old.) Some old buzzard is at the door asking for Mary Wilson.

buzzard meat

n. someone or something that is dead or outdated. If you don’t watch out, you’re going to become buzzard meat!
See also: buzzard, meat
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • between hawk and buzzard
  • hawk
  • caught
  • be caught with (one's) trousers down
  • be caught with your pants down
  • be caught with (one's) pants down
  • caught with one's pants down, be
  • caught with (one's) pants down
  • with (one's) pants down
  • with pants down
References in periodicals archive
The nonchalance of the buzzard's manoeuvre suggested it might be a wellpractised routine, but I happen to know that it was nothing of the kind.
When snow covers the ground owls, buzzards, kites and kestrels, which depend for sustenance upon small mammals, suddenly find access to this vital source of food denied.
Buzzards are not our most frequent patients, and keeping them asleep correctly is fraught with possible complication.
Buzzard was active in post-college wrestling when Gable was finishing his high school career undefeated with three state titles.
The Buzzard UL has a single door and porch with additional end poles to increase internal head and foot space.
Finding a good indie-friendly post house that you can trust is never easy, but the filmmakers felt confident in bringing Buzzard Hollow Beef to AlphaDogs upon a trusted colleague's recommendation assuring them that the team at AlphaDogs would give the film the attention it deserved.
"Criminals are out there adopting how they can usurp those pieces of information," Buzzard warned.
This is what Buzzard said he loves about Stand By Me Day, that three kids from different ends of the country can come together over a shared experience.
"What they have done is they have decided to apply a different and much much higher evidential burden to buzzard applications to protect game birds than for other applications."
Police say when the man approached two men, one of them fired a rifle over his head at a flying turkey buzzard.
When they approached the buzzard they found it had a large metal spring trap attached to its leg.
Loss of habitat for both the birds and their prey must play a part in their decline, but I wonder if the dramatic increase in the buzzard population has also had an effect?
BART the buzzard is a free bird again - a year after being caught in a rabbit snare.
ONCE again a buzzard has attacked rare osprey chicks in their nest at the Lochter Activity Centre outside Oldmeldrum.
Sister Rabbit plays some definitely mean and destructive tricks on her fellow creatures, such as getting Buzzard to wear a crown of flammable twigs while dancing the Fire Dance as long as she is singing, with the result being Buzzard's head feathers catch fire.