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Animal Phrasal Verbs

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  • rabbit on
    talk continuously about things that are not important or not interesting
  • monkey around
    to behave in a silly or careless way
  • rat on
    inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings / fail to keep a promise
  • fish out
    to pull something out
  • leech off
    Use someone, or cling to s.o for personal gain, often not giving anything in return
  • worm out of
    Draw or manipulate information out of someone
  • duck out
    avoid doing sth, usually what we are expected to do
  • squirrel away
    to hide or store something, especially money in a safe place
  • clam up
    become quiet suddenly
  • wolf down
    eat very quickly
  • beaver away
    to work hard for a long time
  • drone on
    to talk about something for a long time in a boring way
  • ferret out
    to track down, discover
  • chicken out
    to decide not to do something because you are too frightened
  • ferret around
    Search for something by sorting through materials
  • horse around
    play roughly
  • pig out
    to eat a lot
  • turn turtle
    turn upside down
  • fish for
    to try and get information or praise in an indirect way
  • lark about/around
    behave in a silly way
  • monkey with
    Bother or interfere with someone or something