Category · 200 phrases
A list of phrases about animals
- A barking dog never bites
- A bee in your bonnet
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A cat may look at a king
- A cock and bull story
- A dark horse
- A fish out of water
- A fish rots from the head down
- A fly in the ointment
- A frog in the throat
- A leopard cannot change its spots
- A little bird told me
- A nest of vipers
- A pig in a poke
- A pretty kettle of fish
- A red rag to a bull
- A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
- A white elephant
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
- Act the giddy goat
- Alley cat
- An albatross around one's neck
- As bald as a coot
- As busy as a bee
- As cute as a bug's ear
- As dead as a dodo
- As fine as frog's hair
- As fit as a butcher's dog
- As free as a bird
- As happy as a clam
- As mad as a hatter
- As mad as a March hare
- As quiet as a mouse
- As sick as a parrot
- As snug as a bug
- As strong as an ox
- As the crow flies
- At one fell swoop
- Badger to death
- Barking mad
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Bats in the belfry
- Beast with two backs
- Beetle-browed
- Bell the cat
- Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Black sheep of the family
- Blind as a bat
- Bright eyed and bushy tailed
- Bunny boiler
- Canterbury pace
- Cat burglar
- Cat got your tongue?
- Cat's Cradle
- Champ at the bit
- Chew the cud
- Code monkey
- Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Cold turkey
- Counting sheep
- Crocodile tears
- Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
- Cry wolf
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Dead cat bounce
- Dog with a bone
- Dog's breakfast
- Dog's dinner
- Don't change horses in midstream
- Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
- Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
- Donkey work
- Drink like a fish
- Dropping like flies
- Ear-mark
- Eat like a horse
- Even a worm will turn
- Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
- Factory farming
- Flea market
- Flog a dead horse
- Flogging a dead horse
- Fly on the wall
- Gee-up
- Get off your high horse
- Get your goat
- Ginger up
- Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Go the whole hog
- Go to the dogs
- Green-eyed monster
- Grinning like a Cheshire cat
- Guinea-pig
- Halcyon days
- Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
- Hay is for horses
- Healthy as a horse
- Hobby-horse
- Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
- Hold your horses
- Horse and cart
- Horse feathers
- How now brown cow?
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
- Hush puppies
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
- If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
- In a pig's eye
- In the doghouse
- Jump the shark
- Kangaroo court
- Keep at bay
- Lamb to the slaughter
- Lame duck
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Lick into shape
- Like a chicken with its head cut off
- Like a moth to a flame
- Like being savaged by a dead sheep
- Like water off a duck’s back
- Lions led by donkeys
- Mackerel sky
- Mad dogs and Englishmen
- Make a bee-line for
- Make an ass of yourself
- Man's best friend
- Mare's nest
- More honoured in the breach than in the observance
- Mutton dressed as lamb
- Night owl
- No room to swing a cat
- Not a dicky-bird
- On the pig's back
- One swallow doesn't make a summer
- Paper tiger
- Pearls before swine
- Pecking order
- Pig and whistle
- Pig's ear
- Pigeon-chested
- Pigs might fly / When pigs fly
- Play ducks and drakes
- Pond life
- Pony and trap
- Pony up
- Pop goes the weasel
- Pull your horns in
- Put the cart before the horse
- Rabbit and pork
- Rag, tag and bobtail
- Raining cats and dogs
- Rat-arsed
- Red herring
- Red in tooth and claw
- Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross
- Road apples
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Run rings around
- Sacred cow
- See a man about a dog
- Separate the sheep from the goats
- Shaggy dog story
- Shanks' mare
- Sick puppy
- Silver fox
- Spelling-bee
- Stone the crows
- Stool pigeon
- Straight from the horse's mouth
- Strain at the leash
- Stuck in my craw
- Swan song
- The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind
- The bee's knees
- The best laid schemes of mice and men
- The birds and the bees
- The cat's pajamas
- The chickens come home to roost
- The early bird catches the worm
- The elephant in the room
- The hair of the dog
- The last straw (that broke the camel's back)
- The mutt's nuts
- The tail wagging the dog
- There are plenty more fish in the sea
- There is more than one way to skin a cat
- Till the cows come home
- Top dog
- Turkeys voting for Christmas
- Weasel words
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I
- Wild goose chase
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
- You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks
- Young buck