IDIOMS XV 

Answer each clue with an animal idiom. For example, Very slow would be Snail's pace.

1. Impossibility

2. Feeling of nervousness

3. Another subject entirely

4. Letters delivered by the Post Office

5. Office holder who has not been re-elected 

6. Useless, troublesome possession that you can't dispose of

7. One who hovers over her charges in an over-protective way 

8. A sure thing is better than the possibility of something better

9. Waste effort on something when there is no chance of success

10 Event that, when added to other stresses, pushes someone beyond their limit 

11. Inability to force someone to do something despite encouraging and supporting him to do so

 

Answers:

 

1. A mouse's nest in a cat's ear

2. Butterflies in your stomach

3. Horse of a different color

4. Snail mail

5. Lame duck

6. White elephant

7. Mother hen

8. A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush

9. Beat a dead horse

10. The straw that breaks the camel's back

11. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink