Animal Idioms! Learn English Idioms, Phrases and Expressions with Animals

As you learn the English language you will run into a lot of idioms, those phrases and expressions that are hard to understand when you first see them because they don't make sense. In this video I'll help you learn 15 English idioms and phrases that involve animals and I'll explain they're meaning in everyday English conversation. ⌛ Remember: Always watch the video two times. Once today, and once tomorrow to reinforce what you have learned! ✅ Learn a new English word everyday with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engbobthecanadian/ ✅ Sign up for my email list and receive exciting **FREE** tips to improve your English: http://eepurl.com/dmbDYX ✅ Ask me questions onFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bobthecanadian ✅ Get updates via Google+: https://goo.gl/dWDvqA ✅ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobthecanadian2 TRANSCRIPT: Hi Bob the Canadian here. The English language can be confusing because we have so many different idioms, expressions, and phrases. In this video I’ll help you learn fifteen different English idioms involving animals and exactly what they mean. Hey welcome to this video. If this is your first time here please click the subscribe button below to get notifications when I do new videos. And if everyone could give me a thumbs up at some point during the video that would be awesome. So the English language is full of a number of different phrases that don’t quite make sense when you first look at them. Today we’re going to look at fifteen different idioms, fifteen different expressions all of them involving animals and I’ll explain to you exactly what they mean. So let’s get started. The first ones we’re going to look is ones that involve flies. And we’ll look at two. So there’s two expressions involving flies, there’s probably more, but I’m just going to look at two, the first one is: wouldn’t hurt a fly. So let’s imagine that you have a really really big friend, huge muscles, really tough looking guy, but in his heart he’s a very very gentle person. So you would describe that person as: He wouldn’t hurt a fly. So he, he’s even though he’s so big and strong he wouldn’t even hurt something as small as a fly. The second expression involving flies is: dropping like flies. So for instance let’s say you forgot to water all of your flowers in your flowerbed and they are all starting to die at the same time you would describe them as: They are dropping like flies. The second animal that has phrases or idioms associated with it is the chicken. And we’ll look at one phrase involving chickens and that’s the phrase: To chicken out. So let’s say you and your friends are going to dive off of a really high diving board. Your friend goes up. He jumps off the diving board. He lands in the water. You go up, you get to the end of the diving board, and you become afraid. And you decide not to do it. We would describe that as: Chickening out. Your friend would say: You chickened out! You didn’t dare dive off the high diving board. You chickened out! The next animal where we’ll look at a phrase or two is the pig. So we’ll look at three phrases involving pigs. The first one describes me quite well and that’s: To be pig headed. You could say Bob the Canadian is pig headed. And what that would mean is that I am stubborn. That I am set in my ways. That I don’t like to do something if I don’t want to do it. So to be pig headed is to be stubborn. The next phrase involving pigs is to pig out. And this could describe me as well. To pig out is to sit down at a meal and to just eat like crazy, to eat really fast, to eat too much. And we would say: Oh man he’s really pigging out! Or: He really pigged out on that meal. So it means to eat a lot, sometimes to eat a lot really quickly. The last phrase involving pigs is: When pigs fly. And this essentially means that something will happen when pigs fly. Now we all know pigs can’t fly, so when we say “When pigs fly.” what we actually mean is that it will probably never happen. When pigs fly. The next animal where we’ll look at a phrase or two is the elephant. And we’ll look at one phrase with the elephant and the phrase in English that we say quite often is: The elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room refers to something that no one wants to talk about. So let’s say you’re at a party and someone has done something bad, but no one actually wants to mention it. Maybe someone has been arrested or something horrible. So the elephant in the room is the subject that no one wants to talk about. **Note: All images used under: CC0 License ✓ Free for personal and commercial use ✓ No attribution required From pexels.com or pixabay.com