Idioms,

**cuddlepop** · 10-Apr-06, 17:06

these are good,thanks a lot

**EDDIE** · 10-Apr-06, 17:18

monkeys wages monkeys work
buy cheap pay dear
everthing comes in threes

**Lavenderblue2** · 10-Apr-06, 17:47

A moment on the lips - a lifetime on the hips!

**EDDIE** · 10-Apr-06, 20:42

Better the devil you know than the devil you dont

**2little2late** · 10-Apr-06, 21:23

Loose lips sink ships.

**Niall Fernie** · 11-Apr-06, 10:43

Rough as a cat's back.

.. got a heid like forty cats.

The cat's pyjamas.

Look what the cat dragged in.

Fat Cat.

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

Cat got your tongue.

Let the cat out of the bag.

Raining cats (and dogs)

Cool for cats.

DW · 11-Apr-06, 11:12

Dead boring
Dead ringer
as dead as a dodo
dead to the world
drop the dead donkey
deadline
flogging a dead horse
stone dead
dead duck
dead heat
dead man walking
dead to the world
dead in the water
dead men's shoes

My apologies to all the dodo lovers, donkey lovers, horse lovers, and duck lovers; oh and to any men who may read this.

No animals were harmed in the compilation of this list.

**cuddlepop** · 11-Apr-06, 12:31

tried to pick up on themes for dogs but didnt get as many as Nial's cats.
Its a dogs life
Every dog has its day.
As rough as a dog.
Anyone got anymore..

**Sianymo** · 11-Apr-06, 12:37

Let sleeping dogs lie

**Shalom** · 11-Apr-06, 17:23

Cuddlepop, as you posted the original question here....is it important for you to have idioms as such.....because a lot of the ones posted are not idioms. Doesn't matter if it just for interest but if it was for a school or college project, it might be more important.
The ones that say something is like something else....e.g. "as black as soot" are similes. Lots of similes go "as....as....." or "like...."
Some of the others are proverbs.....and a couple are Bible verses.
A metaphor is when you say one thing is another. e.g. "Jane is a cow!" (Hope no-one on here is called Jane.....if so...it isn't you!!!

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To show the difference between simile and metaphor:
John eats like a pig. SIMILE
John is a pig. METAPHOR.
IDIOMS are the things we say in one language that we can't really translate meaningfully into another language. Things like "don't beat about the bush". In German that would be "don't speak through the flowers". Same meaning - different idiom! Another is "raining cats and dogs".....in Welsh it "rains little old ladies with sticks". "April Fool" is "Poisson d'avril" (April Fish) in French.
Hope this helps!
As I said, it doesn't matter if it just for interest rather than school work.
Hope this helps.
And having explained all that....I have to confess that I just edited this post as I had made a blooper in it this afternoon and just realised it when I was making tea just now. Senior moment. It's correct now, though!

**doyle** · 12-Apr-06, 13:34

Don't keep all you eggs in one basket

**doyle** · 12-Apr-06, 14:03

don't count you chickens before they hatch

**cuddlepop** · 12-Apr-06, 14:26

Shalom i will go through them all and compile a list ot idioms for our purpose.Autistic kids think you mean for them to go down and pull their socks up.They dont no it means try harder.The most confusing one so far has been pull yourself together,not if that wasn't so tragic to watch it would have been funny.
Many thanks to everyone.

**caithnessgirl** · 12-Apr-06, 17:59

Don't teach/tell your granny how to sook eggs!

**abalone** · 14-Apr-06, 01:27

Well I'll be blowed.
It's a thankless task.
don't cross your bridges before you come to them.
Gordon bennett.
Where there's a will there's a way.
fortune favours the brave.
a pig in a poke.
All the tea in China and all the money in the bank of England[love more than]