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squeal like a stuck pig (third-person singular simple present squeals like a stuck pig, present participle squealing like a stuck pig, simple past and past participle squealed like a stuck pig)
- (simile) Of a person, to utter loud, high-pitched squeals.
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 94:Rokoff’s nerves were keyed to the breaking point. With a shriek he sprang toward an adjoining room, but the ape-man was upon his back while his leap was yet but half completed. Iron fingers sought his throat—the great coward squealed like a stuck pig, until Tarzan had shut off his wind.
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