Butterflies/Bees/Insects/Bugs

· Ants in your pants

· Antsy

· Bee in your bonnet

· Don’t be so buggy

· Busy as a bee

· Butterfly kisses

· Buzz around

· Buzz off

· Chirping like a cricket

· Fat as a tick

· Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee

· Fly in the ointment

· Free as a butterfly

· He’s the bee’s knees

· Hornet’s nest

· Ill as a hornet

· Industrious as an ant

· Jimmy cricket

· Knee high to a grasshopper

· Let me put a bug in your ear

· Mad as a hornet

· Moth to flame

· Ornery as a flea

· Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite

· Slow as a snail

· Social butterfly

· Would like to be a fly on the wall

· You bug me

Fish/Frogs/Turtles

· Fine as a frog hair

· Fish story

· Flip floppy

· Frog in my throat

· Like a fish out of water

· Plenty of fish in the sea

· Slimy as an eel

· Slippery as an eel

· Smells like dead fish

· Swim like a fish

· Smells like dead fish

· That’s a whole other kettle of fish

· Whale of a decision

· When fish fly

 Reptiles/Rodents/Alligators

· Alligator skin

· After a while crocodile

· Country mouse & city mouse

· Dirty rat

· If it was a snake it would have bit you

· Looks like a drown rat

· Mean as a snake

· Opening a can of worms

· Poor as a church mouse

· Quiet as a mouse

· Scurry like a mouse

· See you later alligator

· Worm your way in

Dogs/Cats

· All cats appear grey in the dark

· Barking up the wrong tree

· Can’t teach an old dog new tricks

· Cat got your tongue?

· Catty

· Cat’s meow

· Cat’s pajamas

· Chow down

· Copy Cat

· Crooked as a dog’s hind leg

· Curious as a cat

· Curiosity killed the cat

· Dog day afternoon

· Dog days of summer

· Dog eared

· Dog tired

· Dog’s life

· Don’t let the cat out of the bag

· Every dog has his day

· Fights like cats and dogs

· Fraidy cat

· He’s the cat’s meow

· He who lies down with dogs, rises with fleas

· Let sleeping dogs lie

· Lick the platter clean

· Like a flea on a dog’s hind leg

· Like two cats fighting

· Look at what the cat drug in

· Looks like a cat that swallowed a canary

· Nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof

· Nervous as a caged lion

· Nervouser than a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs

· Pants like a deer

· Prettier than a speckled puppy

· Puppy love

· Raining cats and dogs

· Scaredy Cat

· She’s a dog

· She is being catty

· There’s more than one way to skin a cat

· When the cat’s away, the mice will play

Wild Animals

· A fox smells his own hole first

· A leopard can’t change his spots

· Acting squirrelly

· Backed into a corner

· Bear hug

· Bear market

· Big as an elephant

· Busy  beaver

· Cover your tracks

· Cross as a bear

· Den of thieves

· “Dumbo” ears

· Ears like an elephant

· Foxy

· Go stick your head in the sand

· Grin like a monkey

· Herd of elephants

· Hop to it

· Hungry as a bear

· I’ll be a monkey’s uncle

· It’s squirrelly

· It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back

· Killer instinct

· Lazy as a fox

· Like a herd of wild elephants

· Lion’s den

· Make a monkey out of someone

· Makes your hair stand on end

· Making tracks

· Monkey business

· Play opossum

· Pretty soon baboon

· Roaring mad

· Runs like a cheetah

· Show your stripes

· Sly as a fox

· Smells like a skunk

· Smirk like a monkey

· Sniff the air

· Swifter than a deer

· Things are squirrelly

· Weasel your way in

· Wild as a buck

· Wild as a march hare

· Withdraw into your shell (turtle)

· Wolf in sheep’s clothing

· Wolf it down

· “Zebra” love

· 800 lb. gorilla

Farm Animals

· A cock and bull story

· Acting bullish

· Acting sheepish

· Big as a cow

· Bled like a stuck pig

· Bull in the china shop

· Bull market

· Bullheaded

· Can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

· Chew your cud

· Clothes horse

· Circle the wagons

· Crows like a rooster

· Dirty as a pig

· Don’t beat a dead horse

· Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

· Don’t change horses in mid stream

· Don’t cry over spilt milk

· Don’t get on your high horse

· Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

· Dumb as an ox

· Eats like a horse

· Eat like a pig

· Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden

· Gentle as a lamb

· Happy as a pig in mud

· Handsome as a stallion

· Holy cow!

· Hop to it

· Horse teeth

· Horse sense

· In hog heaven

· Looks like a pig sty

· Multiply like bunnies

· Pearls before swine

· Pig in a poke

· Put your tail to the wind

· Quick as a bunny

· Slow as a turtle

· Squeals like a stuck pig

· Strong as an ox

· Stubborn as a mule

· Surefooted as a mountain goat

· Sweats like a stuck hog

· That’s a bunch of bull

· That’s enough to curl your tail

· That got my goat

· Two shakes of a lamb’s tail

· Use everything but the pig’s squeal

· Waddle in your mess

· What’s the beef?

· When pigs fly

· Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal

Fowl/Birds

· A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

· A little bird told me

· Albatross around your neck

· As the crow flies

· Birds eye view

· Birds of a feather flock together

· Blind as a bat

· Bluebird of happiness

· Cackles like a hen

· Chicken scratch

· Come down on you like a goose on a June bug

· Coos like a dove

· Crazy as a loon

· Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

· Don’t count your eggs before they hatch

· Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

· Dumb as a turkey

· Eats like a bird

· Early bird

· Early bird gets the worm

· Free as a bird

· Get your ducks in a row

· Get your head chopped off

· Go to bed with the chickens

· Goose that laid the golden egg

· Happy as a lark

· He’s a sitting duck

· Henpecked

· Kill two birds with one stone

· Lame duck

· Like water on a duck’s back

· Loose as a goose

· Mad as a wet hen

· Nest egg

· Night owl

· One swallow does not make a summer

· Picky as a bird

· Pigeon-toed

· Poor as hen’s teeth

· Poor as Job’s turkey

· Protective as a mother hen

· Proud as a peacock

· Rare as hen’s teeth

· Ruffled your feathers

· Run around like a chicken with your head cut off

· Save a nest egg

· Scatter like chickens

· Silly as a goose

· Sing like a bird

· Sing like a canary

· Soar like a bird

· Soar like an eagle

· Stinks like a polecat

· Strut like a peacock

· Strut your stuff

· That is chicken scratch

· The birds and bees

· The early bird gets the worm

· The goose that laid the golden egg

· The last one there is a rotten egg

· The stork brought it

· The way the crow flies

· They are nesting

· This is ducky

· To bed with the chickens

· Under his wing

· Up at the crack of dawn

· Up before the rooster crows

· Up with the chickens

· What are you fishing for?

· What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

· Wings of a dove

· Wise as an owl

· Your goose is cooked

Animals represent….

· Ants-Busy, industrious

· Cat-lazy

· Chicken-industrious

· Dove-peace

· Dove-love

· Fox-crafty

· Goat-child

· Hen-industrious

· Lamb-God’s children

· Monkey-mischievous

· Owl-wise

· Pig-dirty

· Rabbit-soft and cuddly

· Snake-evil