动物英文表达及其特点：动物与英语的习惯表达

1.dog in the manger

自己不干也不让别干的人

2.lead a dog's life

过着悲惨的生活

3.dog-tired 累极了

4.let the sleeping dog lie

别惹是生非

5.not to have /stand a dog's chance

毫无机会/希望

6.rain cats and dogs

下倾盆大雨

7.pull dog,pull cat

激烈的比赛，加把劲

8.to see how the cat jump

观望形势

9.as sick as a cat/dog 病危，生大病

10.a cat has nine lives 吉人天相

11.Too much pudding will choke a dog.

布丁太多噎死狗。

12.Every dog is a lion at home.

狗在自家门口就成了狮子。

13.Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings. 狗再傲慢也会吃脏布丁。

14.A son never thinks his mother ugly,

and a dog never shuns its owner's home however shabby it is.

儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫。

15.Love me,love my dog.

爱屋及乌

16.Cats hide their claws.

知人知面不知心。

17.Care kills a cat.忧虑愁死猫。

18.A gloved cat catches no mice.

不愿吃苦的人成不了大事。

19.All cats are grey in the dark.

人未出名时都一样。

20.The cat shuts its eyes when stealing

cream. 掩耳盗铃

21.There are more ways of killing a cat

than by choking it with butter.

达到目的的途径很多。

22.When the weasel and the cat make a marriage,it is a very ill message.

黄鼠狼与猫结亲，不是好事。

23.smell a rat 感到事情不妙

24.live like fighting cocks

过丰衣足食的日子

25.cock of the walk 称王称霸之人

26.a cock-and-bull story 无稽之谈

27.cock-a-hoop 自鸣得意

28.can't make a silk purse out of a sow ear 朽木不可雕

29.get someone's goat

触怒某人

30.cast sheep's eyes 送秋波(抛媚眼)

31.flog a dead horse 徒劳无功

32.talk a hind leg off a donkey/horse/dog

说的天花乱坠

33.horse-play 胡闹，恶作剧

34.look a gift horse in the mouth

吹毛求疵

35.lock the stable door after the horse is stolen 亡羊补牢

36.go to the dogs 江河日下，失败，堕落

37.grin like a cheshire cat 咧嘴傻笑

38.till the cows come home

遥遥无期

39.until the pig flies 不可能的事

40.take a hair of the dog that bites you

以毒攻毒

41.gone coon/goose 不可救药的人

42.can't say a boo to a goose

胆小如鼠

43.kill the goose that lays the golden eggs 杀鸡取卵，竭泽而渔

44.keep the wolf from the door

勉强度日，免于饥饿

45.white elephant 无用而累赘的赠品

沉重的负担

46.lion in the path/way 拦路虎

47.lion's share 最大最好的一份

48.don't monkey about 别捣乱

49.get one's monkey up 生气，发脾气

50.get the big bird 喝倒彩

51.a little bird told me 有人私下告诉我，我自然知道

52.fine feather makes fine birds

人配衣裳马配鞍

53.queer fish 怪人，疯子

54.kettle of fish 糟糕透顶

55.drink like a fish 海饮

56.have another fish to cook

有更重要的事情要做，另有要事

57.the loaves and fishes 物质利益

58.even a worm will turn

狗急跳墙

59.have a bee in one's bonnet/head

想入非非

60.have a butterfly in one's stomach

心里面七上八下

61.fly on the wheel 盲目自大的人

62.fly in the ointment 美中不足之处，扫兴的小事

63.wild horse would/could not drag it

from/out of home 别想从某人那里探到口风

64.buy a pig in the poke 隔山买老牛，瞎

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