30 Animal Idioms For More Interesting English!

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[upbeat music] Hi, and welcome to the Espresso English podcast, where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day. My name is Shana, and I'm the teacher at Espresso English. Make sure to visit the website, espressoenglish.net, where you can get online courses and e-books that will help you learn English even faster. Let's get started with today's lesson. What do cats, dogs, horses, birds, and even elephants have in common? They're everywhere in English idioms. Those are interesting phrases and expressions that can't be translated word for word. If you don't understand idioms, then you'll be really confused when you hear them used by native English speakers. So today, I'll teach you 30 common animal idioms in English, so you can understand them and use them to express yourself more fluently. If you'd love to learn even more of these, my free gift to you is a downloadable list of a hundred idioms, all with meanings and examples. Click on the link in the video description and enter your email address to get that free PDF. We'll start with some idioms with large animals. First, the elephant in the room. That's an idiom for a problem or a controversial issue that is too big to ignore, but everyone tries to avoid talking about it because it's embarrassing or it'll cause conflict. Next, we have a one-trick pony. A pony is a small horse that's often used for shows, competitions, and exhibitions.