ROLE REVERSALS

GAMES Magazine

September, 2000

Nelson Hardy (1-5)

Many common expressions with animal names are gender-based. The words below are the opposite gender of names found in some of these expressions. Can you name the common expression that uses the opposite gender of those listed? For example, COW would prompt the expression, "Hit the bull's eye" or "Take the bull by the horns."

1. Gander

2. Rooster

3. Stallion

4. Doe

5. Ewe

6. Drake 

7. Vixen

8. Boar

 

(Possible) Answers:

 

1. Goose bumps

2. Hen-pecked

3. Mare's nest

4. The buck stops here

5. Battering ram 

6. Lame duck/Sitting duck

7. Sly like a fox

8. Can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear