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IDIOMS – DOGS

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A DOGSBODY (DOG’S-BODY)		“I thought I would be working on really exciting projects, interviewing people and things like that, but in the end I turned out to be the office dogsbody.”
HIS BARK IS WORSE THAN HIS BITE		“She shouts a lot and gets really angry when things don’t go well, but I wouldn’t worry because her bark is worse than her bite.”
TO WORK LIKE A DOG		“I’m really exhausted now because I’ve been working like a dog all week.”
TO LEAD A DOG’S LIFE		“I work 12 hours a day, then I get home and have to look after the baby till 12 at night, then get up at 6 again in the morning. It’s a dog’s life.”
A DOG’S DINNER		“He tried to cut his own hair and made a real dog’s dinner of it.”
TO GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME AND HANG HIM		“Apparently, he once “borrowed” a few pounds from the company safe, and now they call him Jimmy “The Thief” Williams. It was a case of “giving a dog a bad name”.
TO THROW SOMEBODY TO THE DOGS		“The president thought up the idea, but when it all went badly, she threw us to the dogsto save her own reputation.”

IDIOMS – COLOUR

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