{"id":71844,"date":"2019-08-29T06:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71844"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:09:17","slug":"animal-idioms-idioms-derived-from-the-names-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/animal-idioms-idioms-derived-from-the-names-of-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Idioms | Idioms Derived From The Names Of Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Take the bull by the horns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you take the bull by the horns you face a difficult situation boldly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I were you, I would take the bull by the horns and dismiss him from service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cat and dog life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you and your partner are leading a cat and dog life, you are constantly quarrelling with each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let the cat out of the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you let the cat out of the bag you reveal a secret by mistake.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t want anyone to know about my winning the jackpot, but my sister let the cat out of the bag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rain cats and dogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it rains cats and dogs it rains very heavily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Till the cows come home (for a very long time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can discuss the problem till the cows come home, but that isn\u2019t going to solve it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cow someone into doing something (force someone to do something by threatening or frightening)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can\u2019t cow them into submission.<\/li>\n<li>If the management thinks that they can cow the workers into submission they are wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dog in the manger<\/strong> (someone who doesn\u2019t let another person do or have something which he himself cannot do or have)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is a real dog in the manger. He will neither eat the cake nor let us eat it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lead a dog\u2019s life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you lead a dog\u2019s life, you live in abject misery.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She has been leading a dog\u2019s life since the untimely demise of her husband.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Go to the dogs (be ruined)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was never the right person to be the manager. Under his management the company went to the dogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Not a dog\u2019s chance (no chance at all)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don\u2019t have a dog\u2019s chance to win the first prize.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eat like a horse (eat a lot)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you eat like a horse you will soon fall ill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Put the cart before the horse<\/strong> (reverse the logical order of things)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lion\u2019s share<\/strong> (the biggest portion\/share)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the ancestral property was divided, he got the lion\u2019s share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monkey about\/around<\/strong> (behave in a foolish or silly way)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop monkeying about. You are a grown up boy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Play a cat-and-mouse game with someone<\/strong> (keep someone in a state of suspense or uncertainty)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The management is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the workers on strike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rat race<\/strong> (the fierce, unending competition for success or wealth)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am getting tired of this rat race. I just want to go and live a quiet life somewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Smell a rat<\/strong> (have a feeling that something is wrong somewhere)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She smelled a rat when her husband suddenly started working late.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Separate the sheep from the goats<\/strong> (choose people or things of high quality from a group of mixed quality)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The success of an HR manager lies in his\/her ability to separate the sheep from the goats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the bull by the horns When you take the bull by the horns you face a difficult situation boldly. 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