Animal Idioms

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1. He is always as busy as a beaver.
2. To cook your goose is to spoil your plans.
3. Dog days are hot summer days.
4. I haven’t seen them for donkey’s years. That means I haven’t seen them for a long time.
5. If you are a big fish, you are an important person.
6. Those who cry crocodile tears are not really upset.
7. If you eat like a horse, you eat a lot.
8. If you work like a dog, you work really hard.
9. The idiom as the crow flies indicates the shortest distance between two places.
10. To kill two birds with one stone is to solve two problems with just one action.
11. A dark horse is someone about whom very little is known.
12. To eat in a disgusting manner is to eat like a pig.