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The 800 lbs gorilla
Let’s start by talking about the size of real gorillas: according to Enchanted Learning a fully grown male gorilla weighs about 400 lbs. so by all standards a 800 lbs gorilla is an exceptionally...
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Fish ISO bicycle
Couple of things here. Firstly, ISO is an acronym for many a thing, like International Organization for Standardization but in personal ads it stands for “in search of” so here this would translate...
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The fox in the henhouse
“Like a fox guarding the henhouse” or “Don’t let the fox guard the henhouse” is an idiom that is used to point out to somebody that his/her action invite disaster. Hungry fox looking for a henhouse,...
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Shooting fish
in a barrel – this action is exactly what you think it would be: easy, effortless, a simple action, success virtually guaranteed. As such this is a rather lame way of obtaining fish for dinner....
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Flocking birds
Another of these somewhat old-fashioned idioms that are good for your passive vocabulary – good to understand but not necessarily what you would use every day in your conversations with your...
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Red Herring
A red herring, pic: opentabernacle.wordpress.com My first introduction to the concept of a Red Herring was in form of the business magazine. It was the late 90s and everybody in business school was...
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Headless chickens
Frenzied chicken - with head, pic: mypetchicken.com Running around like a headless chicken is a very colorful figure of speech for running around frenzied and without a plan. It implies that the...
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Raining cats and dogs
It's raining cats and dogs, pic: nashvillescene.com It has been raining very heavily for days without end in sight – so the old idiom “it is raining cats and dogs” came to my mind. It means just that:...
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Groups of animals
a bunch of sandpipers are called a fling, pic: flickr.com Many animals hang around in larger groups and these groups have names, different names for different animals. Some of these names are fairly...
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Dog Days
The dog days of summer are over for this year – at least here in the Northern hemisphere, down south, they will be coming – soonish. Enjoying the dog days of summer, pic: greensburggreentown.org The...
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