How many daily sayings that make comparisons to animals do we use?
Sick as a dog
Dirty dog
Dog-tired
And yet dogs remain man’s best friend
There are many others - batty; bovine; catty; cocky; crabby; foxy; lousy; mousy; mulish; ratty; sheepish and swinish.
What about these?
Acciptrine hawklike
Anguine snakelike
Anserine gooselike
Aquiline eaglelike
Asinine asslike
Caprine goatlike
Cervine deerlike
Feline catlike
Herpsetine mongooselike
Hircine goatlike – especially when it comes to odour and lust
Lacertine lizardlike
Lemurline lemurlike
Leonine lionlike
Lupine wolflike
Lutrine otterlike
Murine mouselike
Oscine songbirdlike
Ovine sheeplike
Passerine perching songbirdlike
Pavonine peacocklike
Piscine fishlike
Porcine piglike
Ranine froglike
Serpentine serpentlike
Suilline hoglike
Suine swinelike
Taurine bull-like
Ursine bearlike
Viperine viperlike
Vulpine foxlike
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