nodding dog

British  

noun

1. a small model of a dog carried as a mascot in a motor vehicle, with a head so mounted that it moves up and down with the motion of the vehicle

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Example Sentences

The writer described by writing that it looked "as if the nodding dog in a car was channelling the Joker".

From BBC

Churchill – you know, the ads with the nodding dog – parted company with Clunes when a court banned him from driving last year.

From The Guardian

The Men Behaving Badly actor had appeared alongside a nodding dog in advertisements for Churchill's Insurance since December last year.

From BBC

Oh yes, yes, yes, Royal Bank of Scotland hopes City fund managers will bark this week in synchronised impressions of that irritating nodding dog on the company's Churchill ads.

From The Guardian

"Wiggo, spin to win", proclaimed the banner close to the start, along with the mod roundel which has become synonymous with the first British winner of the Tour de France, and the sideburned national hero's legs spun smoothly enough, his back barely moving in spite of the effort, in contrast to Froome's "busier" style and the American Taylor Phinney's imitation of a nodding dog.

From The Guardian