Episode 212 I'm not holding my horses for someone who goes at a snails pace!

This week we're looking at animal idioms. Surprisingly there's not as many of these as you might imagine (there's far more of the body part ones from last week!) This weeks idioms are: A frog in your throat: Have you got a cold? It sounds like you've got a frog in your throat. As mad as a box of frogs: Watch out for that one, he's as mad as a box of frogs. At a snails pace: Come on! Let's go! You always walk at a snails pace! Watch like a hawk: Careful, he's watching you like a hawk. The world is your oyster: Just remember, the world is your oyster. Hold your horses: Wait! Hold your horses! We're not in a hurry! Pet peeve: Being late is one of my pet peeves. Additional Vocabulary: erratically - doing something in an unpredictable, random or even dangerously irregular way predictably - doing something in a way that we can figure out what will happen next homing pigeon - these are birds who have been trained to find a particular location, they are often in races to see which birds get home fastest. Mad as a box of ferrets - idiom - used just like 'mad as a box of frogs' to mean someone or something is crazy Mad as a hatter - idiom - as above, same meaning and use. Slow coach - idiom - used to mean someone is always going slowly Bird of Prey/ hawk - large birds who hunt small animals or other birds, in the UK our biggest bird of prey is the Golden Eagle in Scotland, you can now commonly see Red Kites in Wales and Southern England after a very effective reintroduction program a few years ago. #emmaseslenglish #english #englishgrammar #englishidioms #englishidiomsandphrases

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