{"id":7418,"date":"2013-09-19T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:31:08","slug":"animal-idioms-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/animal-idioms-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal idioms in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know,  we Spanish people have an old tradition of proverbs and sayings. There are many colloquial expressions using different animal names. Today we are going to review some of them. Instead of giving you the translation, I\u00b4ll provide several definitions and you have to choose the right option according to the meaning. I\u00b4ll give you the answers soon!<\/p>\n<p><em>Por si las moscas.<\/em><br \/>\na.- To have flies at home<br \/>\nb.- To be a mess.<br \/>\nc.- Just in case.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ser perro viejo.<\/i><br \/>\na.- To be very old<br \/>\nb.- To be a wise old owl<br \/>\nc.- To be very grumpy<\/p>\n<p><em>Estar como gallina en corral ajeno.<\/em><br \/>\na.- To have a lot of friends.<br \/>\nb.- To feel very happy.<br \/>\nc.- To feel uncomfortable with a situation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pagar el pato.<\/em><br \/>\na.- To pay for some food.<br \/>\nb.- To love ducks<br \/>\nc.- To be the scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ser un cerdo:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To be intelligent<br \/>\nb.- To be very dirty<br \/>\nc.- To confront directly a situation without doubting<\/p>\n<p><i>Ser un lince:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To see very well<br \/>\nb.- To be very clever<br \/>\nc.- Somebody who does not spend money<\/p>\n<p><i>Coger el toro por los cuernos:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To confront directly a situation without doubting<br \/>\nb.- To be crazy or to be eccentric<br \/>\nc.- To be very sad<\/p>\n<p><em>Andar como perros y gatos.<\/em><br \/>\na.- To move like an animal.<br \/>\nb.- To walk smoothly.<br \/>\nc.- To be constantly quarreling<\/p>\n<p><i>Tener una lengua viperina:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To see very well<br \/>\nb.- To act without thinking<br \/>\nc.- Somebody that criticizes to the others<\/p>\n<p><i>Portarse como un borrego:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To be intelligent<br \/>\nb.- To follow the opinions or actions of the others without making own decisions<br \/>\nc.- Somebody who does not work<\/p>\n<p><i>Tener vista de \u00e1guila:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To feel sad<br \/>\nb.- To see very well<br \/>\nc.- To have the glasses broken<\/p>\n<p><i>Ser un rata:<\/i><br \/>\na.- Somebody who does not spend money<br \/>\nb.- To confront directly a situation without doubting<br \/>\nc.- To be very angry<\/p>\n<p><i>Estar como una cabra:<\/i><br \/>\na.- To be unkind<br \/>\nb.- To be crazy or to be eccentric<br \/>\nc.- Somebody that helps the others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, we Spanish people have an old tradition of proverbs and sayings. There are many colloquial expressions using different animal names. Today we are going to review some of them. Instead of giving you the translation, I\u00b4ll provide several definitions and you have to choose the right option according to the meaning. I\u00b4ll&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/animal-idioms-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,13],"tags":[66,82],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning-2","category-vocabulary","tag-expressions","tag-idioms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7422,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}