Friday, July 15, 2011

Animal Idioms

When there's someone who does the donkey work developing software, a good team leader  always find on opportunity to reward him.

Impudent people use euphemism to describe their behaviour, for instance: it's like water off a duck's back.

I was like a fish out of water when I started my first job.

You think that your job is going good, don't count your chickens, because someone could say that the team doesn't need you anymore.

Some mothers decided to take the bull by the horns and denounce the drug dealer who sell drugs to their sons.

The most domineering among brothers get the lion's share after the death of their parents.

Every woman is a dark horse when she is asked about her age.

I'm in the doghouse because I have forgot to buy a present for my girlfriend's birthday.

All the people that have gone on a cruise say that have spent their time on the boat making a pig of themselves.

When she discovered that her husband had had a love affair, that was the last straw and she asked for divorce.

The company has lost the majority of its customers and I smell a rat when they say that they are not going to make anybody redundant.

I got a new job that I like better and found a girlfriend, so it was like killing two birds with one stone.

One of my university teachers was always threatening noisy undergraduates in class that he would take action against them in an exam but his bark was worse worse than his bite.

After the police had fined the man for jwalking he went away with his tail between his legs.

People let sleeping dog lie so as not to be the first one to raise an argument at work.

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