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 English lesson 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 three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English you have learned! -- ✅ Support Me and Get These Members Only Perks: 😀💲 If you would like to become a member of my channel here is the link: Becoming a member at every level has these benefits and perks: 1) For 10 minutes or more during each live stream you will be able to participate in the “Members Only“ chat. 2) A cool crown beside your name during live streams and when making comments on videos. 3) Your name in green during live stream lesson chat. 4) You will have access to a members only video each Wednesday called, “Wednesdays with Bob“. These are behind the scenes bonus videos with full English transcripts for your listening practice. 5) A full transcript for every Tuesday video. 6) Access to a slower version of every Tuesday video with high quality audio and large easy-to-read English subtitles. 7) At least one worksheet for each Tuesday video to fill out while listening. (Great for Teachers!) ✅ Join now to receive these perks: If you prefer to support me via Patreon, here is a link to that page: -- TAKE YOUR ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS TO THE NEXT LEVEL: ✅Talk to a real English tutor / teacher at preply: (This is an affiliate, signing up for this service helps support my channel). ✅Some Books I Recommend: The Pearl by John Steinbeck: The Martian by Andy Weir: Essential Words for the TOEFL by Steven J. Matthiesen (These are Amazon affiliates. Purchasing these books helps support my channel). -- FOLLOW ME: ✅ I have a second Youtube channel right here: ✅ Sign up for my email list for regular English lesson practice materials: 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. **Note: All images used under: CC0 License ✓ Free for personal and commercial use ✓ No attribution required From or