Read the excerpt from "daughter of invention".

"maybe not. maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. with patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." this last was one of her many dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled english.

which english idiom has the same meaning as the one underlined in this excerpt?

we’re all in the same boat.
you are barking up the wrong tree.
let sleeping dogs lie.
slow and steady wins the race.

normally working animals are domesticated and ruled by a master, a domesticator (tamer), to perform basic and important functions on a farm, for example. the value used in this context is animal labor in exchange for food. it is not so much a contrast to the story told by napoleon and the pigs, since the animals of that particular farm also performed functions on the farm through domestication. the only thing is that in this case, who rules them is a pig, also an animal, but very respected, to whom the other animals lent him submission. that's about a strong relationship of dependency between animal and owner.

about what?

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