Mike Campbell
I should have thought you'd have loved being a steer, Robert.Robert Cohn
What do you mean, Mike?
Mike Campbell
Well, they lead a sort of quiet life. They never say anything important, and they're always hanging around. I should have thought you'd have enjoyed that. Aren't you going to say anything?- Peter Viertel's 1957 screenplay adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
Steer: a young ox, especially one castrated before sexual maturity and raised for beef.
An earlier reference to Hemingway here.
