Cats and dogs
Raining cats and dogs
Cats
Like a cat on a hot tin roof
Like a cat on a hot tin roof
Missed by a whisker
look what the cat dragged in
Dogs
Doggie house – In the doggie house – after doing bad things
Doggie breath
Dogs dinner
A Dog’s life
Dog ear (a book)
Pigs
Can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
Make a pigs/sows ear out of something
Sweating like a pig
Can’t make a silk purse from a sous ear
Make a pigs ear (of something)
Birds
Two birds with 1 stone
Sick as a parrot
Swan song
2 swallows don’t make a summer
Rats
I was rat arsed last night
faster than a rat up a drainpipe
Rat in the kitchen
Mice
Quiet as a church mouse