DOG IDIOMS

MADE BY: MUSURALIEV ELDIIAR, ALMAZOVA BERMET, AITURGAN ALIMBEK KYZY

 “DOG DAYS” “GO TO THE DOGS” “MY DOGS ARE BARKING”
MEANING: THE HOT DAYS OF MEANING: TO BECOME DISORDERED, TO MEANING: MY FEET HURT
SUMMER DECAY

•Example: During the dog •Example: This has •Example: My car broke

days of summer, we like to always been a nice down, and I had to walk all the
spend our time drinking hotel, but it’s going to way home from the mall. I’m
lemonade by the lake. the dogs. OK, but my dogs are barking!
“EVERY MAN AND HIS DOG” “DOG-AND-PONY SHOW” “RAIN CATS AND DOGS”
MEANING: MANY PEOPLE MEANING: A FLASHY PRESENTATION, MEANING: RAIN VERY HEAVILY
OFTEN IN A MARKETING CONTEXT”

•Example:  •Example: The salesman •Example: It’s raining

•Every man and his gave us a real dog-and- cats and dogs. Look at it
dog wanted to pony show, but I’m still not pour!
interview me after I on sure what the product will
the race. cost.
 “FIGHT LIKE CAT AND DOG” “PUPPY DOG EYES” “HAVE A DOG IN THE HUNT”
MEANING: CONTINUALLY ARGUING MEANING: A BEGGING LOOK MEANING: TO SUPPORT A CERTAIN
WITH EACHOTHER PERSON IN A COMPETITION”

EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE:

Those two fight like cat I try to be strict with my
and dog, so please daughter, but when she
don’t put them together looks at me with
on the project. those puppy dog eyes, I buy
her candy.
I’ll be happy working
under either Carl or
Sheila-I don’t have a
dog in that hunt.
 “GO SEE A MAN ABOUT A DOG” “LET SLEEPING DODS LIE” “PUPPIES AND RAINBOWS”
MEANING: GO TO THE BATHROOM MEANING: TO AVOID STIRRING UP A PROBLEM; TO MEANING: PERFECT, IDEAL (USUALLY USED
(SAID AS A EUPHIMISM) LEAVE THINGS ALONE SLIGHTLY SARCASTICALLY, IN CONTRAST
WITH A LESS IDEAL SITUATION)

•Example: I’ll be right •Example: Alice and Maria •Example: At first my

back-I’ve got to go see a have argued over office space marriage was all puppies
man about a dog. in the past. It’s best to let and rainbows, but then
sleeping dogs lie and leave reality set in.
them where they are.