2014-07-11 Communication: animal vocab and idioms

p. 166 - more animal/nature vocabulary
1
a
wings: 5
a shell: 6
paws: 9 (horses have hooves (1 hoof))
a beak: 7 (ducks have a bill)
horns: 4 (deer have antlers)
a tail: 8
claws: 1 (like fingernails, some birds have talons)
fur: 3
fins: 2 (the "wings", fish skin is scales, breathe with gills)
b
a bite: dog, mosquito (bite with mouth)
b sting: bee, scorpion (sting with a stinger, usually tail)
c scratch: cat (scratch with claws/nails/talons)
d kick: horse (kick with feet)
e spit: camel
2
breed (verb): make/let animals have babies, raise those babies
breed (noun): the type of dog
captivity: not in the wild (in a zoo)
3
1 B
2 D
3 O
4 H
5 A
6 G
7 F (dark horse candidate: a political candidate who was unknown before suddenly becoming popular)
8 L
9 I
10 J ("the straw that broke the camel's back")
11 N ("a rat" a dishonest person who will betray you)
 - "He ratted me out." = he told my enemies about me
12 E
13 M
14 K (like an ashamed dog)
15 C ("let bygones be bygones")
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raining cats and dogs
bird brain
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Your camel is better than your cousin's horse. (Arabic)
wolf down - eat something very quickly
When the cat's away the mice come out to play.
lone wolf - a person who likes to spend time alone
throw to the wolves - put another person in danger instead
The monkey in his mother's eye is a gazelle. (Arabic)
Birds of a feather flock together. - people with the same background usually spend time together
play cat and mouse
a squirrel on a treadmill - routine that doesn't go anywhere (Korean)
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
people who don't know an eagle grill it (Arabic)
like an owl (Arabic)
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Homework: p. 95 part 5b