Horse Feathers


	These are some of the many old saying with animals, reptiles, insects etc. that I heard growing up from my Mom and my Grandma, and find it amazing just how many old saying there were that people come up with back in those days and the old sayings even using the animals, reptiles, insects etc. like I have used here made a lot of sense. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush A little bird told me A cash cow A dark horse A leopard never changes his spots Ants in their pants As rare as hens teeth As the crow flies A wolf in sheep's clothing Badger someone Bats in the belfry Bear hug Beating on a dead horse Beef it up Bees knees Being a Guinea pig Being a scape goat Bet on the wrong horse Bird brain Birds eye view Birds of a feather, flock together Black sheep of the family Blind as a bat Bull headed Busy as a bee Busy Beaver Buying a pig in a poke Cat and mouse game Cat burglar Cat got your tongue Cat napping Cats meow Cats pajamas Changing horses in the middle of the stream Chicken hearted Chicken livered Chicken out Clam up Clean as a hounds tooth Cock and bull story Cooked their own goose Copy cat Cow eyed Crazy as a June bug Crazy as a loon Crazy like a fox Crooked as a dogs hind leg Crying crocodile tears Crying wolf Curiosity killed the cat Cute as a bugs ear Cuter than a speckled pup under a little red wagon Different kettle of fish Dog and pony show Dog Days of summer Dog eat dog world Dog in the manger Dog tired Don't count your chickens before they hatch Don't have a dog in this hunt Don't hound me Don't let the bed bugs bite Don't look a gift horse in the mouth Dust bunnies Eager beaver Eating crow Eats like a bird Eats like a hog Eats like a horse Eats like a pig Every dog has its day Fat cat Fight like cats and dogs Fine as the hair on a frogs back Flogging a dead horse For the birds Fraidy cat Free as a bird Frog strangler Full as a tick Gentle as a lamb Get off your high horse Get all your ducks in a row Goes ape Gone to the dogs Got a bee in her bonnet Got a frog in the throat Go hog wild Going whole hog Go to bed with the chickens Got butterflies in the stomach Got a Charley Horse Got eyes like an eagle Got it straight from the horses mouth Got other fish to fry Got your goat Grouchy as a bear with a sore tail Hadn't seen in a coons age Has a memory like an elephant Has goose bumps Happy as a lark Has a cow lick Having a whale of a time Healthy as a horse Hen pecked Hold your horses Horse feathers Horse laugh Horse of a different color Horse play Horse trading If wishes were horses, beggars would ride In dog years In a gnats heel In a pigs eye In hog heaven Innocent as a lamb In the dog house In two shakes of a lambs tail It's only puppy love Kangaroo court Keep the wolves at bay Keeping the wolf from the door Knee high to a grasshopper Knee high to a pup Lame duck Laughing like a Hyena Lay down with the dogs, get up with the fleas Leads a dogs life Let the cat out of the bag Let sleeping dogs lie Lie like an old yeller dog Like a dog chasing its tail Like a bull in a China shop Like a fish out of water Like a fox left to guard the hen house Like a herd of old turtles Like closing the barn door after the horse is out Like cooking frogs Like a moth to the flames Like a one horse town Like pulling hens teeth Like two love birds Loaded for bear Loan shark Lonesome as a pole cat Looks like a drowned rat Looks like a pig's sty Looks like the cat that just swallowed the canary Lower than a snakes belly Mad as an old wet hen Madder than a hornet Making a mountain out of a mole hill Make a bee line Make a monkey out of Mean as a striped snake Meek as a kitten Monkey business Monkey see, monkey do More fun than a barrel of monkeys Moves like a snail Nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rockers Night owl Not the only fish in the sea One trick pony Open a can of worms One of these days the old worm is going to turn Packed like sardines Pigeon toed Pig out Playing possum Pony up Poor as a church mouse Proud as a peacock Putting on the dog Putting the cart before the horse Quick as a bunny thumper Quite as a mouse Rat on Rat race Riding a good horse to death Road hog Rolls off like water off a ducks back Sacred cow Scarce as hens teeth Scaredy cat She's not a spring chicken Sick as a dog Silly goose Sings like a bird Sitting duck Slippery as an eel Sly as a fox Smell a rat Snakes crawl at night Snake in the grass Snug as a bug in a rug Stirred up a hornets nest Stool pigeon Strong as a horse Strong as an Ox Stubborn as a mule Swims like a fish Take the bull by the horns Takes to like a duck to water Talk turkey The early bird gets the worm The old blind sow finally found an acorn There's a fly in the ointment There's more than one way to skin a cat The straw that broke the camels back Tight as a tick Till the cows come home Throw to the wolves Top dog Tried to weasel out of it Ugly duckling Use some horse sense Under dog Watches like a hawk Watches over like an old mother hen Weak as a kitten What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander' When pigs fly When the cats away the mice will play When the chickens come home to roost White elephant Wild as a Mustang Wild goose chase Wild horses couldn't drag them away Wise as an owl Wolf down Worked like a borrowed mule Wouldn't harm a fly You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear You can't teach an old dog new tricks