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This is a list of idioms about animals

a little bird told me

as gentle as a lamb

as rare as hen's teeth

back the wrong horse

be a chicken

be a cold fish

be like a fish out of water

be the cat's whiskers

beat a dead horse

beef up

big fish in a small pond

big frog in a small pond

bird's-eye view

call off the dogs

cash cow

cat got your tongue

chicken out

chicken-hearted

cock-and-bull story

count one's chickens before they hatch

cry wolf

cuckoo in the nest

curiosity killed the cat

dark horse

dead duck

dog-eat-dog

dogs are barking

drink like a fish

eat like a horse

escape the rat race

every dog has its day

fall prey to

fight like cat and dog

fish for compliments

fish story

frog in one's throat

grin like a Cheshire cat

grouse about someone or something

have a cow

have bigger fish to fry

have kittens

have other fish to fry

help a lame dog over a stile

horse of a different color

hungry as a bear

in two shakes of a lamb's tail

keep the wolf from the door

lame duck

let sleeping dogs lie

let the cat out of the bag

like a moth to a flame

like water off a duck's back

lion's share

look like mutton dressed as lamb

make a monkey out of

make a pig of oneself

naked as a jaybird

neither fish nor fowl

no spring chicken

not enough room to swing a cat

not have a cat in hell's chance

odd duck

play cat and mouse

put the cat among the pigeons

rabbit hole

rain cats and dogs

run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

sacred cow

scaredy cat

see a man about a dog

shoot the bull

sitting duck

snake in one's bosom

snake in the grass

snake oil salesman

spring chicken

stir up a hornets' nest

take the bull by the horns

take to something like a duck to water

the straw that broke the camel's back

to sell wolf tickets

when pigs fly

wild-goose chase

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