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proverbs
eggs
don't put all your eggs in one baskettreading on egg shells
to have a little nest egg
to get egg on your face
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
to teach your grandmother to suck eggs
to over-egg the pudding
as sure as eggs is eggs
feathers
you could have knocked me down with a feather
put a feather in your cap
to feather the nest
to featherbed someone
to be as light as a feather
to make the feathers fly
to ruffle a few feathers
geese
it gives you gooseflesh
what's sauce for the goose...
...is sauce for the gander
he's cooked his goose
can't say boo to a goose
a wild goose chase
to kill the goose that lays the golden egg
wings
flights of fancy
to clip your wings
words have wings & cannot be recalled
to take someone under your wing
fear gives you wings
ducks
a lame duck
took to it like a duck to water
water off a duck's back
to be a sitting duck
chickens
running around like a headless chicken
a chicken & egg situation
to act like a spring chicken
the swan
swanning about...
Swan Song - from an old idea that the swan sings when death comes...
"and now the pale swan in her watery nest
begins the sad dirge of her certain ending..." Shakespeare
birds
to be a bird of ill omen
birds of a feather flock together
a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush
the early bird catches the worm
to kill two birds with one stone
its an ill bird that fouls its own nest
free as a bird in the air
a little bird told me so
to be a bird of passage
bird's eye view
to be given the bird - be booed/hissed at
too late - the bird has flown
all the chickens coming home to roost
as the crow flies
to eat like a bird
one swallow doesn't make a summer - one woodcock doesn't make a winter
a bird in a gilded cage
others
stone the crows
bald as a coot
living in cloud cuckoo land
to rule the roost
up with the lark
bird brain
