Animal idioms

[Mad-ox]

drink like a fish= regularly drink too much alcohol

eg. Her husband drinks like a fish.


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m

[pat_perth]

Looks like the cat that swallowed the canary.
Means looking very smug and satisfied.

[JACOOL]

guys, you rock! a great subject Mad-ox, by the way, guys would you mind posting one idiom at a time? not only because it's the rule of the game, but also because it's easier to memorize them, any way here's what I've got:

A white-elepahant: to call a thing a white-elephant, means that it's an unprofitable possession.

it thought that the idiom came when king Siam had a habit of bringing his courtiers to beggary-don't know what does it mean-, he used to present them with a whit elephant, of course the courtier cannot refuse a present given to him by the king nor can he refuse to keep it the result is soon a ruined man.

[Mad-ox]

Originally Posted by JACOOL

guys, you rock! a great subject Mad-ox, by the way, guys would you mind posting one idiom at a time? not only because it's the rule of the game, but also because it's easier to memorize them......

Indeed the rule was introduced( one idiom posted at a time) so that, in this way, these idioms could be easily memorized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

best wishes

[sydneysider]

Flat out like a lizard drinking - very busy ( it's an Aussie slang so use in moderation )...I know, lizard is not an animal....

[RonBee]

Originally Posted by sydneysider

Flat out like a lizard drinking - very busy ( it's an Aussie slang so use in moderation )...I know, lizard is not an animal....

Well, I don't know about Australia, but in this country (USA) a lizard is an animal--a reptile, in fact.

[sydneysider]

Originally Posted by RonBee

Well, I don't know about Australia, but in this country (USA) a lizard is an animal--a reptile, in fact.

Oops.....

[JACOOL]

thanks Mad-ox, here's another one, an idiom you all know: the early bird, catches the worm. obvious isn't it

[csharp]

"Every dog has his days"
Everyone has successful time and bad time. No one has only success and no one has only failure.

[JACOOL]

check this out: "the land of bears" refere to a place where people acting aggressively.
O that yard is a land of bears-