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Animal Idioms

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    Get some practice with your English animal vocabulary by learning some animal idioms.
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  • That singer last night was ________, wasn't she?
    the cat's whiskers
    dog tired
    a cat nap
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  • I've been out here working ________ while you sit inside sipping lemonade. Can you maybe lend a hand?
    like a dog
    like a machine
    like cats and dogs
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  • No wonder he's so strong. He eats ________.
    like a tired dog
    like an alien
    like a horse.
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  • John is always ________ first thing in the morning—it's best not to even talk to him until he's had his coffee.
    like thunders
    barking up the wrong tree
    like a bear with a sore head
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  • I have been trying to solve this math problem for 30 minutes, but I think I've been ________.
    working like a dog
    eating like a horse
    barking up the wrong tree
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  • Have you tried this ice cream? It's the ________, it really is.
    butterfingers
    bee's knees
    wrong trees
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  • If you ________ too often, people will stop believing that you need help.
    bark up the wrong tree
    cry wolf
    work like a dog
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  • When I got an e-mail asking for my password, I should have ________.
    cried wolf
    smelled a rat
    eaten like a horse
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  • Lisa had ________ the day before her interview.
    ants in her pants
    butterfingers
    barked up the wrong tree
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  • She rarely spoke, but her brother could ________.
    cry wolf
    talk the hind legs off a donkey
    say boo to a goose
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  • I really need to clean out my closet—it's starting to look like ________ in there.
    a dog's dinner
    a cat nap
    butterflies in my stomach
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  • If someone is ________, they are very careless in the way that they move or behave
    eating like a horse
    working like a dog
    like a bull in a china shop
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  • She never stops talking about healthy eating - she's got ________ about it. (to keep talking about something again and again because you think it is very important)
    a bull in a china shop
    butterflies
    a real bee in her bonnet
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  • Never, ever tell Martha anything personal—she always ________.
    cry wolf
    working like a dog
    let's the cat out of the bag
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  • I think that I will have________ during my lunch hour.
    butterflies in my stomach
    a catnap
    a bee in my bonnet
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  • My brother is a very sweet, warm-hearted man who_________. How can you suspect that he committed this crime?
    wouldn't say boo to a ghost
    couldn't eat a horse
    wouldn't say boo to a goose
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