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How to remember these English idioms, slang and proverbs like dogs? ....
In the book "How to Remember These English Idioms, Slang and Proverbs (XI) Dogs and Food", it is said that English people have a very bad impression on dogs, especially when it comes to eating, so dogs are prone to get sick, and if they don't eat well, they will be seriously ill, which is why they are terminally ill.

Nausea and diarrhea describe a person who is very ill. Be very ill

When people are depressed, or different from physical diseases, the British use as sick as parrot, which may make their owners depressed.

Disperse, reject or reject (sth) completely. I heard it mainly in England. Very unhappy, disappointed, depressed, sad, etc.

Tim was very depressed when he learned that he had not been promoted.

I'm glad that my children have such a good chance abroad, but I must say that I feel sick at the thought of being apart from them for so long.

Dogs should be happy to see bones. They have food. The British don't think so. That bone may be a dog's toy. Therefore, in British English, being like a dog with a bone in its mouth means thinking/talking endlessly.

It is hard to let go of refusing to stop thinking or talking about a topic.

How to describe that people and dogs are very happy together? Dogs wag their tails when they are happy.

= Very happy

Once she joins the team, she will be like a dog with two tails.

Dogs have four legs. The first two are straight and the last two are curved. Crooked itself means dishonest, untrue and crooked.

Selling dog meat by hanging sheep's head is not trustworthy/trustworthy = very sincere. (* also: as ~. ) = immoral and quite hypocritical.

The phrase 20 16 is used to describe two presidential candidates in the United States.

Don't play cards with him. He is as dishonest as a bucket of hooks. Mary said that all politicians are bent like dogs' hind legs.

The dog's nose is very good, even if it is blindfolded, it can smell the meat, but it can't do anything, so it is very anxious. So this idiom has three meanings:

1. Out of control. Out of control

The drunk walked out of the salon and stumbled on the sidewalk like a blind dog in a meat market. Children are like blind dogs in the meat market, shuttling through the museum, touching anything they shouldn't touch.

2. No purpose is no purpose

3. Unable/impossible to take action, at a loss

Example: "Don't stand in the meat market like a blind dog, do something even if you do something wrong."

Dogs like chasing cars very much. Any kind of car is a pleasure. One day, the dog ran after the bus. After seeing it, the driver felt that the dog was also very hard, so he stopped to let the dog get on the bus. But after the dogs got on the bus, they thought it was not as interesting as chasing the car and couldn't get off.

= When you have achieved a goal, but you don't know what to do next. Riding a tiger is difficult and at a loss.

Example: "This girl finally agreed to date me after I asked her seven times. But now I feel like a dog catching a bus. "

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