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desert mice
n. (plural of desert mouse English)
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Desert Mice
Desert Mice is a 1959 British comedy film featuring Alfred Marks, Sid James, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier and Liz Fraser. A group of ENSA entertainers with the British army in the North Africa desert during the Second World War thwart a Nazi plan. The title is a play on the Desert Rats.
Usage examples of "desert mice".
He made no sound, scurrying like a muad'dib, one of the small desert mice that populated the crannies and cliffs.
The first two concerned three ARDS deaths a year ago in the Baghdad area that were unexplained but finally attributed to a hantavirus carried by desert mice drawn into the city by lack of food in the fields.