He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.
We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.
When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.