{"id":7960,"date":"2017-12-04T21:18:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2018-01-27T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T15:27:52","slug":"expressions-with-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/expressions-with-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressions with animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t try to find an equivalent to all these in English language but I think many of these expressions are very close to the Swedish ones. Your homework will be to translate these because the list is long. Here is some help because my colleague already made a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/tricky-swedish-idioms\/\">post<\/a> like this earlier with idiomatic translations. So you guys can compare it with how Swedes think about attributes and characteristics compared to English speakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/02\/dog-1132213_640.jpg\" aria-label=\"Dog 1132213 640 350x233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7238\"  alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/02\/dog-1132213_640-350x233.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/12\/goat-61054_640.jpg\" aria-label=\"Goat 61054 640 350x234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7169\"  alt=\"Goat\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/12\/goat-61054_640-350x234.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arg som ett bi (Angry as a bee)<\/li>\n<li>Dum som en g\u00e5s (Stupid as a goose)<\/li>\n<li>Envis som en \u00e5sna (Stubborn as a donkey)<\/li>\n<li>Fattig som en kyrkr\u00e5tta (Poor as church rat)<\/li>\n<li>Flitig som en myra (Studious as an ant)<\/li>\n<li>Fri som en f\u00e5gel (Free as a bird)<\/li>\n<li>From som ett lamm (Meek as a lamb)<\/li>\n<li>Full som ett svin (Drunk as a pig)<\/li>\n<li>Glad som en l\u00e4rka (Happy as a lark)<\/li>\n<li>Hal som en \u00e5l (Slippery as an eel)<\/li>\n<li>Hungrig som en varg (Hungry as a wolf)<\/li>\n<li>Klok som en uggla (Wise as an owl)<\/li>\n<li>Listig\/Slug som en r\u00e4v (Sly as fox)<\/li>\n<li>Modig som ett lejon (Brave as a lion)<\/li>\n<li>R\u00e4dd som en hare (Afraid as a hare)<\/li>\n<li>Smidig som en katt (Smooth as a cat)<\/li>\n<li>Smutsig som en gris (Dirty as a pig)<\/li>\n<li>Stark som en oxe (Strong as an ox)<\/li>\n<li>Stolt som en tupp (Proud as a cock\/rooster)<\/li>\n<li>Tjock som en gris (Fat as a pig)<\/li>\n<li>Tyst som en mus (Silent as a mouse)<\/li>\n<li>Virrig som en h\u00f6na (Confused as a chicken)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/12\/dog-1132213_640-350x233-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>I won&#8217;t try to find an equivalent to all these in English language but I think many of these expressions are very close to the Swedish ones. Your homework will be to translate these because the list is long. Here is some help because my colleague already made a post like this earlier with idiomatic&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/expressions-with-animals\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3079],"tags":[3446,477500,477499,477498],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swedish-language","tag-swedish","tag-swedish-animal-expressions","tag-swedish-animals","tag-swedish-expressions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}