Besides, the husband was as boring as a dead toad and unelectable in his own right.

He carried the dead toad into the overgrown garden.

Out of the dead toad's boudoir, along the trash-packed upstairs hall, to the bottle-decorated back stairs and down.

One time he hung up a dead toad from a tree and invited me to watch the flies eat it with him.

Even dead toads have value.

"Say, Durgan, it'll be worth more than a grand a week when I bring this guy to you - harmless as a dead toad!"

When bees go food-collecting in the tropics, it's not necessarily flowers they're after - for Trigona hypogea, a dead toad will do just as well.

Murray turned back his bedcover one evening to find a dead toad spatchcocked across his pillow.

I smelled like dead toads.

"Driving round a bend and skidding on a mat of dead toads is very unpleasant for all concerned," Amanda Hillier, a society administrator, said.