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Animal Idioms 1

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  • What is it?
    donkey work
  • The teacher looked at the students and tried to sort the ___________ from the goats.
    sheep
  • What is it?
    The lion's share
  • When the cat is away, the _______ will play!
    mice
  • What is it?
    Separate the sheep from the goats
  • What is it?
    Don't let the cat out of the bag.
  • A ___________ never changes its spots
    leopard
  • What is it?
    A leopard doesn't change its spots.
  • That's the straw that broke the ________'s back.
    camel
  • What is it?
    The straw that breaks the camels back (the last straw)
  • What is it?
    A snail's pace
  • What is it?
  • tell someone something that was supposed to be a secret
    let the cat out of the bag
  • Old dogs can't learn new __________.
    tricks
  • have a feeling that something secretive or wrong is going on
    smell a rat
  • What is it?
    Teach an old dog new tricks
  • What is it?
    Let sleeping dogs lie.
  • ____________ might fly! There's no way that will happen.
    Pigs
  • It's too late. You can't _______ the door after the hose has already bolted.
    lock
  • The _____________ sheep of the family.
    black
  • at a very slow rate (speed)
    at a snail's pace
  • The students are up to __________ business.
    monkey
  • What is it?
    The black sheep
  • What is it?
    lock the stable door after the horse has bolted.
  • Don't make trouble. Let's sleeping _________ lie.
    dogs
  • What is it?
    Pigs might fly
  • Uninteresting and hard work
    the donkey work
  • the biggest part of something, or most of it
    the lion's share