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Animal Idioms and Prepositions
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House attached to a farm (especially the main house in which the farmer lives)

Farmhouse

100

Someone who has very strong opinions and often contradicts other people

Argumentative

100

When you receive money from someone who has died

Inherit

100

Hard protective outer case of a mollusk (or crustacean)

Shell

100

Ask for help when you don't really need it (idiom)

Cry wolf

200

Building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles

Garage
200

Extremely quiet (personality simile)

As quiet as a mouse

200

Expensive

Costly

200

Respiratory organs of fishes and some amphibians

Gills

200

When you reveal a secret by mistake (idiom)

Let the cat out of the bag

300

Area of mown grass in a garden or park

Lawn

300

Someone who is calm and able to make decisions in difficult circumstances

Level-headed

300
When you give someone their money back

Reimburse

300

Limbs at the back of an animal

Hind legs

300

Punctual, punctually (prepositional phrase)

On time

400

Barrier enclosing an area

Fence

400

Someone who always thinks about others before themselves

Considerate

400

When you pay part of the cost of something so that it is cheaper for someone else

Subsidize

400

Long, pointy teeth some animals have

Fangs

400

Replacing something for something else (prepositional phrase)

Change of

500

Space or room (partly) inside the roof of a building

Attic

500

Very stubborn (personality simile)

As stubborn as a mule

500

When you try to to persuade a seller to reduce the price of something

Haggle

500

Parts of the fingers at a joint where the bone is near the surface

Knuckles

500

When people become ill in large numbers (idiom)

Drop like flies

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