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Animal-Inspired Idioms and Vocabulary, Exercises of English Language

Cabrini UniversityEnglish Language

A wide range of animal-related vocabulary and idiomatic expressions in english. It covers topics such as anatomy, animal behavior, and animal-inspired metaphors and idioms. Definitions and examples for terms and phrases related to mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and other animals. It also delves into medical and scientific terminology, as well as environmental concepts like natural resources, conservation, and sustainability. Additionally, the document touches on various legal and criminal concepts, as well as business and financial terminology. Overall, this document serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the rich and diverse ways in which animals and animal-related concepts are woven into the english language.

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Cambridge CAE - Vocabulary
1. I feel like I had the rug pulled out from under me - ✔✔i feel like all
my friends and support are gone and now I feel lost
2. my heart is in Switzerland - ✔✔I like it here but I still miss
Switzerland
3. I'm still trying to find my feet - ✔✔I'm still trying to get used to/get
settled here
4. I like to travel off the beaten track - ✔✔I like to go where people
don't usually go
5. If I could, I'd go there in a shot/second - ✔✔I'd go there without a
second thought - without consideration
6. beer is definitely off the menu - ✔✔I can't drink beer from this day
forward
7. things are looking up - ✔✔the future looks bright - things are
improving!
8. anatomy - ✔✔The study of body structure
9. anthropology - ✔✔study of the origin, behavior, and culture of
human beings
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Cambridge CAE - Vocabulary

  1. I feel like I had the rug pulled out from under me - ✔✔i feel like all my friends and support are gone and now I feel lost
  2. my heart is in Switzerland - ✔✔I like it here but I still miss Switzerland
  3. I'm still trying to find my feet - ✔✔I'm still trying to get used to/get settled here
  4. I like to travel off the beaten track - ✔✔I like to go where people don't usually go
  5. If I could, I'd go there in a shot/second - ✔✔I'd go there without a second thought - without consideration
  6. beer is definitely off the menu - ✔✔I can't drink beer from this day forward
  7. things are looking up - ✔✔the future looks bright - things are improving!
  8. anatomy - ✔✔The study of body structure
  9. anthropology - ✔✔study of the origin, behavior, and culture of human beings
  1. archaeology - ✔✔study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
  2. astronomy - ✔✔The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
  3. ecology - ✔✔Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
  4. genetics - ✔✔The scientific study of heredity
  5. meteorology - ✔✔Science dealing with the atmosphere and weather
  6. psychology - ✔✔The science of behavior and mental processes
  7. seismology - ✔✔The study of earthquakes
  8. zoology - ✔✔the study of animals
  9. mammals - ✔✔animals that have hair and produce milk for their young
  10. amphibians - ✔✔animals able to live both on land and in water
  11. reptile - ✔✔vertebrates that live on land, scales cover body, lay eggs, and are cold blooded
  12. vertebrates - ✔✔animals with backbones
  1. to eat like a horse - ✔✔to always eat a lot of food
  2. to be in the doghouse - ✔✔to be in trouble
  3. to have a hen party - ✔✔a party for women only, especially one that is organized for a woman who is soon going to get married
  4. to be an early bird - ✔✔a person who always gets up early
  5. to be a night hawk - ✔✔a person who likes to stay up very late
  6. a bee in your bonnet - ✔✔worried or angry about something
  7. black sheep of the family - ✔✔an odd or unfavourable member of a group (family)
  8. take the bull by the horns - ✔✔take charge of a situation, usually a difficult one
  9. have ants in your pants - ✔✔can't sit still
  10. 'till the cows come home - ✔✔for an indefinitely long time
  11. not enough room to swing a cat - ✔✔very little space; cramped quarters
  12. monkeying around - ✔✔do random work, unplanned work; fooling around, being idle
  1. gone to the dogs - ✔✔to become worse in quality or character
  2. smell a rat - ✔✔suspect that something is wrong; to sense that someone has done something wrong
  3. wild goose chase - ✔✔a hunt for something that's impossible to find
  4. that's chicken feed - ✔✔not very much (money)
  5. straight from the horse's mouth - ✔✔from a reliable source
  6. keep the wolf from the door - ✔✔keep away poverty and starvation
  7. for donkey's years - ✔✔for a very long time
  8. talk the hind leg off a donkey - ✔✔talk incessantly about unimportant things
  9. the straw that broke the camel's back - ✔✔the final incident that caused a big change or consequence
  10. a pig-sty - ✔✔a dirty or very untidy place
  11. to be totally foxed - ✔✔absolutely confused
  12. like water off a duck's back - ✔✔be unaffected by an unpleasant experience
  1. flown the nest - ✔✔to leave your parents' home for the first time in order to live somewhere else
  2. swan around - ✔✔showing off
  3. pecking order - ✔✔the system of rank that occurs in competition with populations
  4. nest egg - ✔✔sum of money that are saved for a particular purpose
  5. eat like a sparrow - ✔✔eat very little
  6. no spring chicken - ✔✔not young anymore
  7. birds of a feather - ✔✔two people that have the same interest and/or character
  8. a little bird told me - ✔✔I was told by a private or secret source
  9. put the cart before the horse - ✔✔to reverse the proper order, do things backwards
  10. on the hoof - ✔✔without great thought or preparation
  11. the bit between my teeth - ✔✔take control of a situation
  1. keep a tight rein - ✔✔to watch and control someone or something diligently
  2. get saddled with - ✔✔burdened with someone or something
  3. horses for courses - ✔✔different things for different people
  4. put it through its paces - ✔✔to test the ability or skill of something
  5. flogging a dead horse - ✔✔wasting time trying to do something that won't succeed
  6. on your high horse - ✔✔attitude of stubborn arrogance or contempt
  7. wild horses couldn't drag me - ✔✔determined to remain with something
  8. backing the wrong horse - ✔✔to support someone or something that cannot win or succeed
  9. one-horse race - ✔✔a contest in which one candidate or competitor is clearly superior to all the others and seems certain to win
  10. they are the dark horse - ✔✔someone or something whose abilities, plans, or feelings are little known to others
  1. palm - ✔✔the inside of the hand
  2. dementia - ✔✔a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory, thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes
  3. obesity - ✔✔excessive accumulation of fat that exceeds the body's skeletal and physical standards, usually an increase of 20% or more above ideal body weight
  4. contagious - ✔✔spread from one person to another through physical contact
  5. infectious - ✔✔likely to spread to others through microorganisms (bacteria or virus) in water or air
  6. starvation - ✔✔severe deficiency in caloric intake
  7. malnutrition - ✔✔inadequate intake of nutrients
  8. treatment - ✔✔medical care given to a patient
  9. medicine - ✔✔1) the science of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease
    1. a preparation used to treat a disease
  11. transmit - ✔✔to spread or pass on to others
  1. contract (v) - ✔✔to get or acquire a disease
  2. epidemic - ✔✔a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time (SARS)
  3. pandemic - ✔✔a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (country, world) and affects a very high proportion of the population (AIDS)
  4. acute - ✔✔brief and severe disease (bronchitis, appendicitis)
  5. preventable - ✔✔something that could be stopped from happening
  6. tuberculosis (TB) - ✔✔infectious disease of the lungs that can spread to any organ in the body
  7. pneumococcal diseases - ✔✔a disease, caused by a bacterium known as Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, ranging from ear and sinus infections to pneumonia and bloodstream infections
  8. vaccine (noun) - ✔✔preparation of weakened or killed pathogens used to produce immunity to a disease
  9. immunise (verb) - ✔✔giving a vaccine that allows immunity to develop without exposure to the disease itself
  1. crawl - ✔✔to move on hands and knees
  2. glance - ✔✔a brief, quick look
  3. gaze - ✔✔to look for a long time at someone or something or in a particular direction
  4. glimpse - ✔✔a momentary or partial view
  5. glare - ✔✔a long angry look at someone
  6. peep - ✔✔to look through a small opening or from a concealed location
  7. in a rut - ✔✔set in a way of doing things and not likely to change
  8. not know whether I'm coming or going - ✔✔to be in a very confused state
  9. short-cut (to success) - ✔✔an accelerated way of doing or achieving something
  10. side-tracked - ✔✔to get off of the main topic or objective
  11. light at the end of the tunnel - ✔✔something that shows you are nearly at the end of a difficult time or situation
  12. go our separate ways - ✔✔leave in a different direction from someone with whom one has just traveled or spent time; break up
  1. on the road to recovery - ✔✔getting better
  2. taken off - ✔✔become successful
  3. at a crossroads - ✔✔at a point where an important decision or choice has to be made
  4. right off the rails - ✔✔to act in an abnormal manner, especially in a manner that causes damage
  5. no turning back - ✔✔unable to reverse direction and retrace one's steps
  6. follow in someone's footsteps - ✔✔to do the same job or the same things in your life as someone else, especially a member of your family
  7. a dead-end job - ✔✔a job with no promotional opportunities
  8. going nowhere fast - ✔✔not making any progress
  9. running out of steam - ✔✔Losing impetus ; interest ; energy
  10. have arrived - ✔✔to have reached a position of power, authority, or prominence (success)
  11. journey - ✔✔act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle
  1. be right back - ✔✔return soon
  2. by (all) rights - ✔✔according to what is proper
  3. right, left and centre - ✔✔everywhere
  4. right away - ✔✔immediately
  5. get on the right side - ✔✔get someone to like you
  6. was in the right - ✔✔had justice on the side
  7. left-luggage - ✔✔a place to leave a suitcase
  8. two left feet - ✔✔can't dance
  9. leftovers - ✔✔food from the night before
  10. doesn't know left from right - ✔✔bad at giving directions
  11. set off (early) - ✔✔begin a journey
  12. set off (fireworks) - ✔✔light
  13. gave in (to a problem) - ✔✔admit defeat
  14. give in (to a demand) - ✔✔agree to something you do not want
  1. put off (until tomorrow) - ✔✔postpone
  2. put off (by something/someone) - ✔✔make you dislike
  3. take in (the solar system) - ✔✔understand
  4. (be) taken in - ✔✔deceive
  5. break out - ✔✔begin suddenly, usually something unpleasant
  6. go off - ✔✔operate, making a sudden loud noise
  7. set something off - ✔✔cause something to start working or happening
  8. call someone in/out - ✔✔ask someone professional to come and provide help
  9. put something out - ✔✔extinguish something, to stop something burning
  10. go through something - ✔✔experience or suffer something unpleasant
  11. get out of somewhere - ✔✔leave, escape
  12. call out - ✔✔shout loudly in order to attract someone's attention
  13. look into something - ✔✔investigate something
  1. to be under control - ✔✔passive, something controlled by someone else
  2. overpopulated - ✔✔when there are too many people in a place
  3. famine - ✔✔a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
  4. drought - ✔✔an unusually long period in which little or no rain falls
  5. natural resources - ✔✔materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
  6. financial resources - ✔✔money or other items of value that are used to acquire goods and services
  7. tornado - ✔✔a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that may be visible as a funnel-shaped cloud
  8. volcano - ✔✔a vent in Earth's crust through which molten rock flows
  9. flood - ✔✔an overflowing of water in a normally dry area
  10. landslide - ✔✔a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
  1. earth tremor - ✔✔used to describe earthquakes of low magnitude
  2. earthquake - ✔✔shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
  3. vital - ✔✔absolutely necessary or important; essential.
  4. trivial - ✔✔of little importance; inconsequential
  5. critical - ✔✔very important
  6. controversial - ✔✔arousing argument, dispute, or disagreement
  7. momentous - ✔✔of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence
  8. momentary - ✔✔lasting for a very short time
  9. principal - ✔✔first in order of importance; main
  10. principle - ✔✔a truth, a rule, or a law
  11. antisocial - ✔✔pathologically characterized by an unusual lack of remorse, empathy, or regard for normal social rules and conventions
  12. unsocial - ✔✔not social; having or showing a dislike for others in a group