NOVA 藤が丘校コミュのIdioms using animals

We learned idioms using animals in VOICE.
Below are the idioms that we talked about.

1.It's the bees knees. You are the bees knees.
Bees knees means excellent. It's British English.

2.It was rainnig cats and dogs.
cats and dogs means heavily.

3.Holly cow!(It means Suprising!)
Americans also use this idiom.

4.I'd like to been a fly on the wall when you were told off by your boss.
It means I'd like to have seen something.

5.My friend had to make a speech, but he chickened out.
Chicken out means act cowardly.

6.He drinks like a fish. (a lot or too much)
You cant't use "I" because this is usually used when you talk about other people.

7.I'm so hungry. I could eat a horse.
It means you are very hungry, so you can eat anything, even a horse. In Japan, people eat raw horse meat, but in western countries, they don't eat a horse, so it's the last food to eat. Notes: You cant't say, " He could eat a horse because he can eat any unusual food like raw eggs, sea cucumber, konowata, chicken's heart, grilled sparrow etc."

8.Have you ever been in a wild goose chase?
a wild goose chase means a search that has no chance of success.
I said," I dropped my contact in the hand vasen. I searched for it, but I couldn't find it. It was a wild goose chase.

9.hen night/stag night,bucks night
In American English, The alternative words are:bachelorett's party/bachelor's party.
Ex. I had a hen night last night.

Some idioms were very fresh to me, so the VOICE class was really productive. Do you know any other idioms using animals?

Makiko

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[1] mixiユーザー 09月28日 06:48

Hey Makiko, Great job!

There are so many useful idioms and all of them sound interesting
to me! Thank you so much.

I know the similar one to "I could eat a horse".
It's "I'm so tired I could sleep for a week!" I occasionally reply this
pharse when my teachers ask me how I am. :)

In my opinion, the reason the phrase "eat a horse" was made in the
old days is because those who live in English-speaking lands never
eat horse meat and horse is the biggest animal in the countries.

If there were elephants in the lands, the phrase would be like this:
"I'm so hungry, I could eat an elephant!"

[2] mixiユーザー 09月29日 01:56

Pro: Anytime. I didn't know that idiom. When I'm very tired, I will say,'I could sleep for a week.' in VOICE. When you've learned a new word, use it ASAP. It's a tip for remembering new words. And the episode about I could eat a horse is quite interesting.

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