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A book______
(a person who likes reading and study)
WORM
To be a red rag to a ______
(to be something which makes a person very angry and very excited)
BULL
An eager _______
(a person with great drive and enthusiasm
even if this causes annoyance to others)
BEAVER
A _____ in the hand is worth two in the bush
(a benefit currently available is more valuable than a seemingly much larger benefit which may or may not be achieved in the future)
BIRD
An ocean full of ______
(plenty of opportunity)
FISH
To count one's ______s before they are hatched
(to treat as fact the expected results of
a future proposal)
CHICKEN
A ______
(a person without character who changes
his stance all the time to reflect the
current circumstances)
CHAMELEON
To be a ___________ in the nest
(to purport to be a member of a group
of people although having no such
right)
CUCKOO
A watch______
(a person or organization monitoring
behavior)
DOG
An ugly ______
(a person initially thought unintelligent who develops and becomes brilliant (refers to a cygnet in a brood of ducks in a children's story of that name by Hans Christian Andersen))
DUCKLING
The straw which broke the _____'s back
(the latest step, which, when added to a large number of seemingly harmless previous steps, sets off a disaster resulting from the cumulative effect)
CAMEL
To kill the ______ that lays the golden eggs
(through excessive greed to destroy a
very profitable enterprise)
GOOSE
To have an ______ eye
(to be able to notice small mistakes
very readily)
EAGLE
Hold your _______s!
(just wait a little!)
HORSE
To put one's head into the ______'s mouth
(to recklessly expose oneself to great
danger)
LION
A ______
(a person with incredibly outmoded idea)
DINOSAUR
A ______ cannot change his spots
(each person is born with certain unalterable characteristics)
LEOPARD
A _______ hole
(space which is really too small for a
person's needs or comfort)
FOX
To leap ______ something
(to overtake something, with the likelihood
of in turn being overtaken (refers to a game in which participants jump over each other in turn))
FROG
A guinea ______
(a person on whom some new practice is tried out)
PIG
a _______
(person benefiting from another's misfortune)
VULTURE
A ______ in the grass
(a person of low character)
SNAKE
To be a wolf in _________'s clothing
(to be a hypocrite or to be dangerous although masquerading as something harmless)
SHEEP
A scape______
(a person unfairly blamed for something not his fault)
GOAT
A lone ________
(a person who prefers to act without involving others)
WOLF