“Three Blind Mice”

Cultural  

1. A nursery rhyme and children's song:

   Three blind mice, see how they run!

   They all ran after the farmer's wife;

   She cut off their tails with a carving knife.

   Did you ever see such a sight in your life,

   As three blind mice?

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Example Sentences

Many of her works were inspired by literature or nursery rhymes, repurposing literary or folk characters like the Three Blind Mice, Jane Eyre and Snow White.

From Washington Post

Three Blind Mice The trio of mice appears glum; Their actions were really quite dumb.

From Washington Post

Max Romeo’s “Revelation Time” and “War Ina Babylon” were revolutionary in outlook, biblical and Marxist in equal measure, while detailing a brutal police raid on a party set to the tune of “Three Blind Mice” in another.

From Washington Post

Rego conjures disturbing imagery — etchings of dark nursery rhymes like “Three Blind Mice,” and portraits of women howling like feral dogs — but it’s her exuberant, otherworldly early work, rather than the gritty naturalism of her recent pastels, that lingers powerfully in the mind.

From New York Times

To be fair, the lyrics to “Three Blind Mice” are pretty disturbing too.

From Fox News