Important Idioms for Competitive Exams : Idioms with Animals

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Dear friends, yesterday we have learnt Idioms related to clothes. To day we shall learn Idioms related to Animals. Happy Reading :)

This boy is a silly ass (a foolish person)
She's got bats in the belfry (is mad)
His letter has a sting in the tail (unpleasant part at the end)
She and her husband lead a cat-and-dog life (a life with perpetual quarrels)
They are making a cat's-paw of you (using you as a tool)
Now you have let the cat out of the bag (revealed a secret)
I haven't seen you for donkey's years (a long time)
That man's a wolf in sheep's clothing (a hypocrite)
In London she is like a fish out of water (out of her element)
He is as clumsy as a bull in a china shop (harmful and out of place)
What a cock-and-bull story that was (an incredible story told as true)
She shed crocodile tears over her brother's death (insincere sorrow)
The poor man leads a dog's life (a wretched, miserable life)
That big chair is an absolute white elephant (unwanted possession)
Your brother is a dark horse (a successful competitor of whose abilities little was known before the contest)
She's always fishing for compliments (trying to get)
Your father is a spoilsport - a dog in the manger (a person who will neither enjoy something himself nor let others enjoy it)

Shared by Bhargav Gupta Yechuri