Learning English with Oxford is a new blog from Oxford University Press.
So far there are only a few posts. For example, a list of cat idioms:
- Be the cat’s whiskers
- Raining cats and dogs
- Has the cat got your tongue?
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Like a cat on hot bricks
- Like a cat that’s got the cream
- Like herding cats
- Look like something the cat dragged in
- No room to swing a cat
- Not stand a cat in hell’s chance
- Play a game of cat and mouse with somebody
- Put the cat among the pigeons
- There’s more than one way to skin a cat
- When the cat’s away the mice will play
The blog says, “Keep practising these phrases to improve your fluency.” It does not explain why you should memorize 15 obscure idioms that happen to include the word cat.
But perhaps (to use another idiom) people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.