Partridge meat is better than chicken meat.

The very spits at the fire, as full as they could hold of partridges and pheasants, fell asleep, and the fire itself as well.

The expression “as for the story, the partridge landed on it” is actually a very old idiom, which is used in connection with someone who has committed a crime; when you ask him about it, he doesn't even answer you! We then say that the partridge (or the hen) has landed on it.

An expression says: as for that story, the partridge landed on it.

The pheasant, the bustard, the deaf wild peacock, the moorhen, the partridge, the woodcock and the thrush are said to be delicacies.

Even in legends, anyone who has secretly eaten a partridge must wipe his mouth. The others must not know it, otherwise they would call him to account.

The name "Skura" is derived from "tasekkurt" which is Berber for partridge.

There's no partridge in that pear tree.

Being apprehensive lest he might commit more mischief and break my plants, I sprang forward to seize him, but the little rogue skipt lightly from me, sometimes gliding between the rose-trees, and sometimes hiding himself like a young partridge under the poppies.