Origins of Animal-Related Terms or Sayings, Like "Doggie Bag" or "Wild Goose Chase"

[RadishRose]

Crocodile tears
Monkey business
Bird brain

 

[Aunt Bea]

Three dog night - So cold you would need three dogs in bed with you to keep warm.

 

[dkay]

Madder than a wet hen
My dogs are barkin'
Have to see a man about a horse
Get all your ducks in a row

 

[Aunt Bea]

You've got ants in yer pants!

 

[Pappy]

Don’t have a cow.
Snake in the grass.

 

[RadishRose]

making a mountain out of a molehill
he has bats in his belfry

 

[Aunt Bea]

Hogan's Goat.

Hoek Hogan, a European farmer, was responsible for an incomprehensibly hideous creation. The year was 1855. Apparently, farmer Hogan had bred a goat so smelly and ugly that people remember it today, honoring the poor creature with the phrase Hogan s goat, which they use to refer to something that has been screwed up beyond all recognition.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[fmdog44]

Place looked like a rats nest.
As smooth as a monkey kickin' a football.
Drunk as a skunk.
Fat as a hog.
Sly as a fox.
Eagle beak.