Animal Idioms
Here's a list of sayings that have something to do with animals:
*drunk* as a newt
*drunk* as a rat
A barking dog never bites
A beehive of activity
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A can of worms
A cat can look at a king
A cat has nine lives
A charley horse
A c**k-and-bull story
A dark horse
A different kettle of fish
A dog in the manger
A dog’s breakfast
A dog’s life
A feather in your cap
A fly in the ointment
A fly on the wall
A frog in your throat
A good egg
A horse of another colour
A kettle of fish
A leopard can’t change its spots
A little bird told me
A memory like an elephant
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
A one-horse town
A sacred cow
A shaggy dog story
A sitting duck
A snail’s pace
A snake in the grass
A whale of a time
A white elephant
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
All fuss and feathers
All his/ her geese are swans
An elephant never forgets
Ants in your pants
Are you a man or a mouse?
As awkward as a cow on roller skates
As gruff as a bear
As innocent as a lamb
As mad as a hornet
As merry as a cricket
As plain as the hump on a camel’s back
As poor as a church mouse
As red as a lobster
As snug as a bug in a rug
As the crow flies
As weak as a kitten
Back the wrong horse
Barking up the wrong tree
Bet on a lame rooster
Better fish to fry
Big dog
Big fish in a small puddle
Bigger fish to fry
Biggest fish in the pond
Bird brained
Birds of a feather flock together
Birds-eye view
Bitten by the bug
Black sheep of the family
Bleed like a stuck pig
Blind as a bat
Book worm
Brass monkey
Brave as a lion
Bug-eyed
Bull-headed
Busy as a beaver
Busy as a bee
Butterflies in your stomach
Call off the dogs
Can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
Card shark
Cash cow
Cast pearls before the swine
Cat and mouse game
Cat call
Cat got your tongue
Catching flies
Catnap
Chicken feed
Chicken feed
Chicken out
Clam up
Clam up
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass money
Cold fish
Cold turkey
Cook your goose
Cook your goose
Cool cat
Copycat
Counting sheep
Cow juice
Crazy as a fox
Crazy as a June bug
Crocodile tears
Crooked as a dog’s hind leg
Crow’s nest
Cry wolf
Curiosity killed the cat
Dead as a dodo
Dead duck
Dirty rat
Dog days of summer
Dog eat dog
Dog tired
Dog-faced liar
Dogged me
Don’t bug me
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched
Don’t have a cow
Don’t have kittens
Don’t let the bed bugs bite
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Don’t shut the stable door when the horse has bolted
Don’t teach your Grandmother how to suck eggs
Donkey’s years
Dressed up like a dog’s dinner
Drink like a fish
Dropping like flies
Drunk as a skunk
Duck out
Duck soup
Ducky
Dust bunny
Eager beaver
Eagle eyes
Eat like a bird
Eat like a horse
Eat like a pig
Egg on
Egg on your face
Even the worm will turn
Every dog has it’s day
Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
Fat as a butcher’s cat
Fat cat
Fell like a rooster in a hen house
Ferret information out of
Ferret out
Fight like cat and dog
Fish in troubled waters
Fishing for compliments
Fishy
Fit as a butcher’s dog
Flea market
For the birds
Foxy
Free as a bird
Full as a tick
Funny as a barrel of monkeys
Get a flea in your ear
Get on your high horse
Get someone’s goat
Go and see a man about a dog
Go ape
Gone to the dogs
Gone to the dogs
Goose
Goose flesh/ goose bumps
Got a bee in your bonnet
Graceful as a swan
Grin like a Cheshire cat
Hair of the dog that bit you
Happy as a clam
Happy as a clam at high tide
Happy as a flea in a dog house
Happy as a lark
Happy as a pig in clover
Have a bee in your bonnet
Have a canary
Have a monkey on your back
Have bats in the belfry
Hawker
Hawk-eyes
He who rides the tiger is afraid to dismount
Hen party
His bark is worse than his bite
Hit the bulls-eye
Hog the blankets
Hogwash
Hold your horses
Hold your horses
Holy cow!
Holy mackerel!
Hoof it
Horse-sense
Horsing around
How now, Brown Cow?
I don’t give a monkey’s what you think
I want to speak to the organ-grinder, not the monkey
If it ain’t chicken, it’s feathers
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, then it must be a duck
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
In like a lion, out like a lamb
In the dog house
In the doghouse
Into the lions den
Kangaroo court
Keep the wolf from the door
Kick like a mule
Kill 2 birds with 1 stone
Kill the fatted calf
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
Knee-high to a grasshopper
Knock me over with a feather
Lame duck
Larking about
Laugh like a hyena
Leap like a salmon
Leaping lizards!
Let sleeping dogs lie
Let the cat out of the bag
Life in a fish bowl
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bear with a sore head
Like a bull in a china shop
Like a cat on a hot tin roof
Like a dog with 2 tails
Like a duck to water
Like a fish out of water
Like a fox guarding the chicken coop
Like a lamb to the slaughter
Like a moth to a flame
Like a rabbit in the headlights
Like a red rag to a bull
Like bees round honey
Like dog’s breath
Like ducks in a row
Like rats abandoning a sinking ship
Like shooting fish in a barrel
Like water off a duck’s back
Like water off a duck’s back
Lion-hearted
Loan shark
Lone wolf
Look at what the cat dragged in
Look like a drowned rat
Look like the cat that swallowed the canary
Look what the cat dragged in
Lost your appetite and found a donkey’s
Love bug
Love me, love my dog
Mad as a March hare
Mad as a struck snake
Make a beeline for
Make a beeline for
Make a mountain out of a molehill
Make a pig’s ear of it
Making doe eyes
Making sheep eyes
Mean as a junk-yard dog
Mean as a rattlesnake
Meek as a lamb
Mole-eyed
Monkey business
Monkey business
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey suit
More than one way to skin a cat
Mutton dressed as lamb
My dogs are barking
Naked as a jay bird
Neither fish, flesh nor fowl
Nest egg
No flies on him/ her
No flies on him/ her
No spring chicken
None of your beeswax
Not a cat in Hell’s chance
Not enough room to swing a cat
Old goat
Once a snake, always a snake
Out fox
Ox-eyed
Pace like a caged lion
Packed in like sardines
Pig in a poke
Pig out
Pigeon-toed
Piggy bank
Piggyback
Pig-headed
Play possum
Plenty more fish in the sea
Prickley as a porcupine
Proud as a lion
Proud as a peacock
Pull a rabbit out of the hat
Pull the wool over someone’s eyes
Puppy love
Put the cart before the horse
Quiet as a mouse
Rabbit food
Raining cats and dogs
Rare as hen’s teeth
Rat fink
Rat on someone
Rat race
Rats!
Red herring
Road hog
Ruffled feathers
Rule the roost
Run round like a headless chicken
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
Say boo to a goose
Scapegoat
Scaredy cat
See ya later alligator….In a while crocodile
Separate the sheep from the goats
Serve as a guinea pig
Sick as a dog
Sick as a parrot
Sing like a bird
Skunk egg
Sleeping with the fishes
Slick as goose grease
Slippery as a snake
Slippery as an eel
Sly as a fox
Small fish in a big lake
Small fry
Smell a rat
Smelly as a skunk
Smile like a crocodile
Sneaky as a fox in a hen house
Snore like a pig
So hungry I could eat a horse
Squirrel something away
Stag party
Stir up a hornet’s nest
Stone the crows
Stool pigeon
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Strong as a lion
Strong as an ox
Stubborn as a mule
Swan song
Sweat like a pig
Swim like a fish
Take the bull by the horns
Take the bull by the horns
Talk turkey
That put the cat among the pigeons
That’s horse feathers
The bee’s knees
The best-laid plans of mice and men
The bird has flown
The birds and the bees
The cat’s meow
The cat’s pyjamas
The cat’s whiskers
The chickens have come home to roost
The early bird catches the worm
The lion’s share
The straw that broke the camel’s back
The tail wagging the dog
The whole hog
The world is your oyster
Throw a monkey wrench in the works
Throw someone a bone
Throw to the lions
Throw to the wolves
Ticked off
Till the cows come home
To badger someone
To be foxed
To be hounded
To feather your nest
To have a tiger by the tail
Top cat
Top dog
Treat someone like a dog
Turn turtle
Two shakes of a lamb’s tail
Underdog
Vain as a peacock
Walk on eggshells
Watch like a hawk
Weasel out
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander
When pigs fly
While the cat’s away, the mice will play
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Why have a dog and bark yourself?
Wild goose chase
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wise as an owl
Wolf it down
Work like a dog
Working like ants
Worm your way out of something
Wouldn’t hurt a fly
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a passageway
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
You might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
You’ll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
You’re flogging a dead horse
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