{"id":252,"date":"2014-07-15T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-07-15T07:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:13:59","slug":"cow-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/cow-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cow idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a list of idioms using the words cow and bull.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>As awkward as a cow on roller skates<\/h3>\n<p>When you are as awkward as a cow on roller skates, you look very awkward.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The girl looked as awkward as a cow on roller skates while giving a speech in front of her teachers and classmates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A bull in a china shop<\/h3>\n<p>This expression is used to refer to a person who is very clumsy or careless or who lacks tact.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martha is like a bull in a china shop. You can\u2019t expect her to properly deal with a delicate situation like this.<\/li>\n<li>My boy is a like a bull in a china shop. He breaks at least two glasses a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A cash cow<\/h3>\n<p>A cash cow is a hugely profitable product or service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her family treated her as a cash cow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Have a cow<\/h3>\n<p>When you have a cow you become very angry or upset.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My brother had a cow when I told him that I had crashed his car.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Hit the bull\u2019s-eye<\/h3>\n<p>To hit the bull\u2019s-eye is to reach the main point of something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chief Justice hit the bull\u2019s-eye when he said that greedy politicians were the bane of our society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A sacred cow<\/h3>\n<p>A sacred cow is a person or thing that is never criticized.<\/p>\n<h3>Take the bull by the horns<\/h3>\n<p>To take the bull by the horns is to act decisively.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James was always coming home late. At last Maria decided to take the bull by the horns and asked him what he was up to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Until the cows come home<\/h3>\n<p>Until very late<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We worked in the yard until the cows came home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms using the words cow and bull. As awkward as a cow on roller skates When you are as awkward as a cow on roller skates, you look very&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}