Animal Idioms - Common English Idioms With Meaning
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Күн бұрынHere is a list of common English idioms with meanings and examples included. Idioms are common in spoken English, and animal idioms are used in many situations (most of them don't include animals) for example, "Hold your horses" means wait or slow down. If you can think of any more animal idioms then please share them below. I would also like to hear if you have any fun animal phrases in your language.
Do let me know if you have any questions about this, and feel free to leave feedback or suggestions for future lessons.
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@astrakboat 3 жыл бұрын
Anna: 58yrs, Upstate NY. All 30 of these idioms are common 'round here, save perhaps "2 shakes of a lambs tail". I'm fascinated by English! Gracias, tommy
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@shahkhan3964 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Anna! They are new idioms for me.
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@sanjaypanchal7374 3 жыл бұрын
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@sergiosorbo6955 3 жыл бұрын
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@mjdumbarton 3 жыл бұрын
Great video - not animal related - Love the old scottish one my nana used to say if we were close to getting into trouble - "your coats on a shoogily peg" 🤣
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@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Correct your order: I love every lesson so much. ;) Thank you for your kind words.
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@yancamonster 3 жыл бұрын
Hello Darling, great video, i always loved your videos, i love the idiom, fly in the wall, bc of M.C song, greetings from Colombia.
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@reeteshpal3995 3 жыл бұрын
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@prabhua5690 3 жыл бұрын
Two shakes of a lamb's tail is so funny and I love to use this idiom.
@giusepperuggeri09 3 жыл бұрын
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@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
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Thanks for the correction Anna!
@sayahromio6222 3 жыл бұрын
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@farukbakr6507 3 жыл бұрын
idioms ha i like it.Thank u pretty!
@Childrensmathes 3 жыл бұрын
I liked the video you made.You have explained different varieties of idioms.I did not hear them except one or two.These are more useful to the students writing competitive exams.You did a nice job.I could not but appreciate you.P Siva Rao,India. .
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
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@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. You know I do have a pronunciation course on englishlikeanative.co.uk :)
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@gonzachambi3937 3 жыл бұрын
To have ants in someone pants: means someone is so restless, specially kids. To have butterflys in your stomach: someone that is in love and can not hide it. Is quite notorious lol
@abumusa9351 3 жыл бұрын
Cool
@grazynawilczynosek959 3 жыл бұрын
Ok, I've just reminded myself of these: to rabbit on - to talk a lot to pig out (is it an American phrase?) - to eat a lot, to gorge oneself to rush around like a headless chicken - to run frantically neither fish nor fowl - something indefinable like the cat that got the cream - to be proud (as proud as a peacock) :)
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant additions. To pig out is common here in the UK too.
@grazynawilczynosek959 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks for a reply :)
@fredyLeang7394 3 жыл бұрын
You're so sweet. Dear teacher
@Lita1 3 жыл бұрын
"It was like hugging a bear completing the presentation in the environmental protection meeting. However it was completed in the end." The idiom 'Like hugging a bear.' In Norwegian is used to describe a task that is near impossible or EXTREAMLY hard. I liked this video and idioms are rather fun actually yes!!!!👍😅
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
I love that idiom. I’ve never heard it before. Thank you for sharing.
@antoniomari2730 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I like animals ahah, a really interesting lesson Anna! Always so smart and gorgeous!
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@grazynawilczynosek959 3 жыл бұрын
A great lesson! the cat's whiskers - sth is the best in the world to have a whale of a time - to enjoy oneself to have butterflies in one's stomach - to be nervous a night owl - a person who prefers to stay up late at night an early bird - someone who prefers to wake up early a lame duck - a loser an odd duck - a loony a fair cow - sth terrible a little bird told me - when we don't want somebody to know the source of the information a cash cow - the part of a business that makes a lot of profit for donkey's years - for a long time Oh, there are so many (I've just thought of a sacred cow and a guinea pig) :D Greetings! M.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic thank you for your input.
@stunninglad1 3 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful selection of animal and insect idioms there! Some more? What do you mean 'no.?' A bull in a china shop.(A clumsy person) To have butterflies. (To be nervous) To be dog tired. (Very tired) A dog with two tails. (To be very excited) The dog's woof woofs! (Perfection) The cat's whiskers.. (Something that is awfully nice) Don't be catty! (catty - to be nasty) A fly in the ointment. (A problem in the plan or a defect) A flea in the ear. (To be given a telling off) A pig in a poke. (Something that looks good at first glance but is in fact hopeless. - Example - A car with a knackered engine, but it did have nice bodywork. To be sheepish. (To be scared) And finally - What did one camel say to the other camel? Answer - 'Don't get the hump!'
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant, and a joke as well. It’s always a pleasure to read your comments. Thanks for your input.
@stunninglad1 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative Thank you, Anna. We could also throw in these ones: 'Stop monkeying around' and To make a monkey of something' (Messing around and messing up). Let's also not forget this one - 'To have a frog in one's throat' (To have a sore throat and to be a bit croaky).
@Ben-Hollingbery 3 жыл бұрын
"A dog's breakfast" = an awful mess / You made a dog's breafast out of that "A pigs ear" = a confused mess (not always as bad as a dog's breakfast) "the bee's knees" = something is amazing
@Masha-nk1xf 3 жыл бұрын
Dear Anna, you are a great English teacher!! I am an italian student , unfortunately we do not learn a lot of things you explanained at school, I wonder why! Sorry for my English! Thanks for your lessons!
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Your school was teaching you the important fundamentals of the English language. I teach the day to day language which is used in the UK, hence the name of my channel (English like a native). Both versions are valid and compliment one another. :)
@Masha-nk1xf 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative I get it Anna, in Italy we say crocodile tears to mean fake tears too
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
We have this one too
@shohanursohan2498 3 жыл бұрын
Love from Bangladesh
@letswintogether688 3 жыл бұрын
you are so nice. I am obsessed with you.
@piusmhapsekar1235 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you are back. What about your music channel?
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
I have limited time for making music videos at the moment
@fahimkhan6084 3 жыл бұрын
1) A fly in the ointment : it means a minor irritation or drawback, that spoils the enjoyment of something. 2) there's more than one way to skin a cat. 3) a pig in a poke.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant thank you.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant thank you
@Irina-bp4nd 3 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that the idiom "to rain cats and dogs" is not used any more. That it is old fashioned. Is it true or do people still use it? Thank you a lot for your video's. They are brilliant ❤️
@leonievw2466 3 жыл бұрын
I love how many idioms are the same in my native language, or slightly different. Like two birds with one stone is in the Dutch: to catch two flies in one blow
@SWATosha 3 жыл бұрын
Or my favorite one in russian is: to kill two hares with one shot
@yuriykorotkevych8838 3 жыл бұрын
"When pigs fly" - meaning "never"
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
We say “and pigs might fly” in response to hearing something we don’t believe will happen. For example - Dad: If we ask our son nicely he might do the washing up. Mum: and pigs might fly.
@suhanachaulagain7726 3 жыл бұрын
Which font is professional looking?
@luismiguelnunes5539 2 жыл бұрын
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@twentycm 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing I am a professor in English language but never heard of any of these idioms I must go back to school 😩😩😩
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Please don’t worry. You can pick up idioms from KZfaq lessons no problem. :)
@twentycm 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative you know that I am joking about being a professor, yes I must keep getting lessons from KZfaq ❤️
@mudzaffarmohamed384 3 жыл бұрын
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@fredysonoliveira5829 3 жыл бұрын
Some idioms I remember are: Cry Wolf, When Pigs Fly, A Wolf in Lamb's Clothes.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant additions thank you
@shahinmunir86 3 жыл бұрын
Hi sweet🌻💖🌻
@cemongerhan6635 3 жыл бұрын
In English language daily,do the people or somebody not confuse if we talk with the idiom,Mz.Anna?
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely not. English conversation is full of idioms, that’s why it’s important to become familiar with the most common ones.
@cemongerhan6635 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks Mz.Anna..🤗🤗
@egonjensen6506 3 жыл бұрын
Hello Anna, would you please enlighten me if OUT is necessary when a dentist tells us to rinse our mouth? 'rinse out' or just rinse?
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
A dentist may say “you may rinse” but wouldn’t say “rinse your mouth”. Alternatively they could use rinse your mouth out.
@egonjensen6506 3 жыл бұрын
muchas gracias bella señorita Anna!
@rizwan3147 3 жыл бұрын
Great Teacher love and respect from Pakistan Dear Madam I want to ask Dark Horse is for male or both male and female?
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Both male and female :)
@rizwan3147 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative Okay Madam. Thanks
@jhonealmeidacamposalmeidac7746 3 жыл бұрын
Hi, I am living in London for about 2 years now, and I am looking to do the IELTS exam. I was wondering if you could recommend me a book that I could use to help me out. Thank you.
@kokabtasleem281 3 жыл бұрын
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@vincentprasarh 3 жыл бұрын
"the straw that breaks the camel's back" - the final event in a series of bad events that makes you very angry
@ibrahimawaggeh2887 3 жыл бұрын
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@syedali9217 3 жыл бұрын
Its me first viewer of this video
@vivianayacar3041 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Anna, I hope you and your family are well. I would very much like to give my 11-year-old son a reader for the summer holidays. Would you please recommend what to buy? By the way, your new-born baby is very cute and the older as well. Kind regards from Argentina.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. When you say a reader do you mean like a kindle?
@vivianayacar3041 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative Here we call readers to the books that are not text books, those which tell stories. I don't know what a kindle is.
@fredysonoliveira5829 3 жыл бұрын
By the way, there's a song by Alanis Morissette called Right Through You where she says: "Your shake is like a fish". Would that be an idiom?
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
It’s not really an idiom but I think she means that the person is slippery (dishonest)
@fredysonoliveira5829 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative I got it... thank you, Anna 👍
@LuVD990 3 жыл бұрын
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@johnm.7621 3 жыл бұрын
Hi i need to know sth. pls. I watch a series and there someone did hit a guy and he fell down and does not stir anymore. Than the other person says to him "You'd better not have killed him." What means the abbreviation " 'd " in that case? would? had? did? I can't figure it out help me pls.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Had :)
@johnm.7621 3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks! This sentence is really illogical. It says "You shouldn't have killed him" but means "I hope you don't killed him". Is a little confusing. :)
@paco3447 3 жыл бұрын
Out of the 30 British idioms, which one does Ricky Gervais use? Is mostly impossible to understand. I like Ricky, but with support subtitles.
@ianstrom4365 3 жыл бұрын
Birds of the feather
@juanvalenzuela1418 3 жыл бұрын
" To feel like a canary in a coalmine" Meaning: It's the preamble something bad will happen.
@phoophoo9528 3 жыл бұрын
Neither fish nor fowl means of indefinite character and difficult to identify or classify (similar with indefinite, indeterminate)
@MATSTHEPROF 3 жыл бұрын
Hey there. I have a question: to grab a bull by its horns or to grab a bull by it's horns? thanks in advance
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Yes the first version is correct. There is a typo on the video.
@victorkonstantinov856 3 жыл бұрын
One day my friend Richard called me a sneaky snake !!##!! and asked me to disappear ASAP. Today I realize, such a brilliant idioma
@akramtester5249 3 жыл бұрын
Wow::beautiful teacher ..So I'll gives you my new idiom: when someone delivers to you a final result like (research, homework or yearly report ) what I say to him? "your work like an ants- a bee-" meaning every thing organized and a result so interesting and he make a great effort to accessing to success. So what is your opinion in my own idiom...
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
We have the phrase ‘busy bee’. You could say: someone’s been a busy bee = they have clearly been working hard.
@ianstrom4365 3 жыл бұрын
To feel like a long-tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Wow I haven’t heard that one before
@giuseppezedde4553 3 жыл бұрын
I've listened to dozens of videos of English lessons but you are the best ... Love!
@dope1725 Жыл бұрын
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@eugeneshalman9044 3 жыл бұрын
By ITS horns
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
You are correct
@franciscopontesvelasco4315 2 жыл бұрын
Not raining cats and dogs but cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey
@user-ww1ep7jq1g 3 жыл бұрын
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@rungsakthongmuk8538 3 жыл бұрын
I have butterflies in my stomach.😊
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@privatoprivato1177 3 жыл бұрын
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@pedrosmith4529 3 жыл бұрын
I was told by an English friend not to use 'it's raining cats and dogs' because only English students and really old people say that. Is that true?
@shychameleon 3 жыл бұрын
We say that all the time in the U.S. It’s common to use all of these in the States.
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
It’s used more often in creative writing but it’s such a commonly known idiom that it’s good to know it.
@pedrosmith4529 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you both.
@Toots13413 3 жыл бұрын
1) Fly on the wall 2) Bee's knees 3) To make a beeline 4) To kill two birds with one stone 5) Sitting duck 6) To chicken out 7) A wild goose chase 8) To take the bull by the horns 9) To horse around 10) Until the cows come home 11) Dark horse 12) Hold your horses 13) Straight from the horse's mouth 14) In two shakes of a lamb's tail 15) To go the whole hog 16) The cat's pyjamas 17) To let the cat out of the bag 18) Cat got your tongue? 19) Raining cats and dogs 20) To let sleeping dogs lie 21) In the doghouse 22) Dog eat dog 23) Ants in your pants 24) To smell a rat 25) Fishy 26)To have bigger fish to fry 27) Another cattle of fish 28) Crocodile tears 29) Elephant in the room 30) To have the lion's share
@juicystories6682 3 жыл бұрын
First anna
@canberkaydn357 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Anna, I heard we can say it for a baby before learning the gender of the baby is it correct? Also, Can I ask how old is ur baby?(I mean generally)
@yousefalharbi2560 3 жыл бұрын
First comment
@tariqmahmood7621 3 жыл бұрын
In the eighth idiom, there is a spelling error, did you notice? It must be 'its' NOT it's. Am I right?
@EnglishLikeANative 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely right, typos are the bane of my life. If my business ever makes enough money for me to hire another team member then I will hire a proofreader for sure.
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