Ostrich : noun Large runner bird native to Africa that is raised for its meat and eggs.
The expressions "ostrich" or "ostrich politics" are based on a false belief of headlong flight or to obscure danger. In fact the ostrich lowers its head to the ground to feed, to turn its eggs, to listen to the arrival of possible predators, to protect itself from sandstorms.
It is therefore wrong to say that the ostrich puts its head in the sand so as not to see danger or escape danger.
This belief has crossed the centuries because already in the XNUMXst century after Jesus Christ, Pliny the Elder said: “Ostriches are the stupidest animals in the world. They believe they are making themselves invisible by plunging their heads in the sand ”.
Have an ostrich stomach: swallow or digest anything (because the ostrich swallows everything that passes to its beak, no doubt to help the food being crushed by its gizzard). His ostrich stomach would digest stones.