animal idioms

ANIMAL IDIOMS

Pig-headed

Not taking advice, stubborn

A bookworm

Someone who reads a lot

Making almost no noise, being shy and not talking much

Not able to see well because of very bad eyesight

As blind as a bat

chicken

Afraid, scared

To talk turkey

To talk openly and directly

A copycat

A person who wants to do the same thing as other people

An early bird

The first person to be somewhere, a person who gets

out of bed early

To work like a dog

To work very hard

Let sleeping dogs lie

You shouldn’t disturb a situation as it would result in trouble and

complications

To eat a lot

Let the cat out of the bag

Disclose a secret

A fish out of water

Someone who is in a situation they are unsuited to

Hold your horses

Hold on, be patient

Kill two birds with one stone

Achieve two objectives with a single effort

Smell a ratTo know instinctively that something is wrong or that someone is lying to you.

Take the bull by the horns

To tackle a problem directly, without worrying about the

risks involved.

Like a bull in a china shop

Behaving clumsily when you should be careful

A cock and bull story

A lie someone tells that is completely unbelievable

Packed like sardines

When a place is very crowded, without enough

space

The black sheep

Someone who does not fit into a group or family because their behaviour is not good enough

Straight from the horse’s mouth

From the highest authority, the best source of information

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