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    Until the Cows Come Home: And Other Expressions about Animals
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    Until the Cows Come Home: And Other Expressions about Animals

    By Sandy Donovan

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    Hold your horses! Don't let the cat out of the bag. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Have you ever heard these crazy expressions? People use them even when there aren't any animals around! That's because these sentences are idioms—phrases that mean something different than what the words in them actually say. But don't let idioms get your goat. Let's explore a variety of idioms involving animals and figure out what people really mean when they use them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9781467700825
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    Until the Cows Come Home: And Other Expressions about Animals
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    Sandy Donovan

    Sandy Donovan has written many nonfiction books for young readers.

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