canary

“This is not a judgment of guilt, nor is it a suspension of any other canonical penalty,” Canary wrote.

The aforementioned stories may very well be legitimate, but let's consider them a sort of canary in the coal mine.

As has often been the case with issues of LGBT equality, this vote is the canary in the coalmine.

It's like she is in Fashion Jail and only allowed to wear frumpy dated Sloane florals and old lady canary yellow.

Since retail can be the canary in the coal mine for the broader economy, there's real reason to be anxious.

On the 7th of August we neared the Canary Isles, but unfortunately, on account of the thick fog, we could not see them.

Their present canary was quite the most delightful little creature they had ever possessed.

The Canary Islands boast of two bishoprics, both of which are now vacant, yet have not one newspaper.

Neither the pine-apple nor water-melon grow in Teneriffe, but abundance of the latter are brought from Grand Canary.

She is like a canary bird; when others begin to speak, she hurries in her remarks, in an accompaniment.