Fine Tune Your English: Animal Expressions

Question 1

To rain cats and dogs

Answer 1

To rain heavily

Question 2

Pride of place

Answer 2

Pre dominant position

Question 3

Swan song

Answer 3

Last thing

Question 4

A bee in the bonnet

Answer 4

Talking about something constantly

Question 5

A cat on hot bricks

Answer 5

Very nervous

Question 6

Dog eat dog situation

Answer 6

Fierce competition

Question 7

I’m leading a dog’s life

Answer 7

full of problems

Question 8

Snail’s pace

Answer 8

Very slow

Question 9

To keep the wolf from the door

Answer 9

To have enough money to avoid hunger

Question 10

Play ducks and drakes

Answer 10

To spend carelessly

Question 11

Putting the cart before the horse

Answer 11

To argue illogically

Question 12

Cow comes home

Answer 12

Taking a very long time

Question 13

Cock and bull story

Answer 13

Improbable story

Question 14

Flogging a dead horse

Answer 14

To waste your energy on something

Question 15

Cro the whole hog

Answer 15

To do the job thoroughly and completely

Question 16

Horns of a dillemma

Answer 16

Unable to choose between two painful alternatives

Question 17

Adding another feather to the hat

Answer 17

Another achievement

Question 18

The goose is cooked

Answer 18

Make sure that someone will fail

Question 19

Let the cat out of the bag

Answer 19

Revealing something

Question 20

Cut the cackle

Answer 20

Stop speaking irrelevantly

Question 21

Turn tail

Answer 21

To retreat

Question 22

Every dog has its day

Answer 22

To have a successful day

Question 23

A bull in the china shop

Answer 23

Clumsy and lacking skill and care to do some work

Question 24

Take a bull by the horns

Answer 24

To face the situation directly with courage

Question 25

The count wants chicken before they’re hatched

Answer 25

Over expectations

Question 26

Something the cat dragged in

Answer 26

To look dirty

Question 27

To make a bee line

Answer 27

To go directly

Question 28

To pull weight

Answer 28

To work as hard as someone else

Question 29

To pull weight

Answer 29

To work as hard as someone else

Question 30

Go to the dogs

Answer 30

In a bad state

Question 31

To shed crocodile tears

Answer 31

Fake tears

Question 32

A dog in the manger

Answer 32

To possess something does not belong to us

Question 33

The lion’s share

Answer 33

The major part

Question 34

Monkey business

Answer 34

Mischievous or mysterious

Question 35

To turn turtle

Answer 35

To turn upside down

Question 36

A fish out of water

Answer 36

To be in trouble (odd one out)

Question 37

The crows flies

Answer 37

To go straight

Question 38

Horse sense

Answer 38

Basic common sense

Question 39

To smell a rat

Answer 39

To have a feeling that something bad is going to happen

Question 40

A bull in the china shop

Answer 40

Clumsy and lacking skill and care to do some wor