show the cloven hoof [ foot ]
To show the cloven hoof or foot
He finally betrayed his cloven foot.
Cleft or cloven, as a hoof.
The cloven hooves are sharp edged, elastic and concave.
I thought he would show the cloven hoof sooner or later.
Shortly after they became man and wife Tom began to show the cloven foot.
He sighs, and wipes stray bread crumbs from his beard, rising to his cloven feet.
Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals with cloven hooves, such as cattle, pigs, deer, goats and sheep.
The clear, sharp cloven Carrara mountains sent up their steadfast flame of marble summit into amber sky.
The highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease can affect cloven - hoofed animals including pigs, sheep and goats, while humans are hardly affected by the virus.
"Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) (or hoof-and-mouth disease):Highly contagious viral disease of cloven-footed mammals (including cattle), spread by ingestion and inhalation."
It can infect all cloven-hoofed animals--cattle goats sheep pigs water buffalo deer bison antelope reindeer llamas chamois alpacas vicunas giraffes impala elk and camels.
The human disease is also known as hand, foot and mouth disease, while the cloven-hoofed animal version is also called hoof-and-mouth disease.
Any of several mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, cloven hoofs, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, especially the domesticated hog, Sus scrofa, when young or of comparatively small size.
