Animal Idioms

don’t do anything/just leave things as they are

so that you won’t have any other troubles

• to take the bull by the horn

• to do the donkey work

• to let sleeping dogs lie

• to let the cat out of the bags

to do the hard boring part of a job or task

• to flog a dead horse

• to keep the wolf from the door

• to smell a rat

• to do the donkey work

to have more important things to do

• to have bigger fish to fry

• to take the bull by the horn

• to flog a dead horse

• to keep the wolf from the door

to face a difficult or dangerous situation directly and bravely

• to flog a dead horse

• to take the bull by the horn

• to smell a rat

• to let the cat out of the bag

work hard to have enough money to avoid going hungry

• to keep the wolf from the door

• to do the donkey work

• to have a bee in your bonnet

• to smell a rat

to reveal a secret (let a secret known by others)

• to smell a rat

• to make a pig's ear of something

• to let the cat out of the bag

• to let sleeping dogs lie

to waste your time by trying to do something that is not possible

• to let sleeping dogs lie

• to have a bee in the bonnet

• to make a pig's ear of something

• to flog a dead horse

to take the _____ by the horn

to do the ______ work

to flog a dead ______