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Animal Metaphors and Animal Idioms (28)

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DATE : Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:52:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2005-09-17 19:52:00
length : 14828219
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Howard Chang and Dave Shepherd explore animal metaphors and American English idioms based on animals. (1:41)

Song: "Snakes," by Calyptra, courtesy of GarageBand.com (11:38)

Rude word of the week: "dog" and other animal-based insults (14:56)

Song: "Taller Than Dogs," by Oscar Trim, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network (19:44)

Fantastic animal metaphors, and ancient roots of animal idioms (22:23)

Theme music by Kick the Cat

time: 30:51
size: 14.1 Mb
NOTE: We will save you all some hard drive space by encoding at 64 kbps and 22.05 kHz from now on. It seems to sound just as good!

rating: PG (Some animal insults are really rude.)

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