Product Description: Hip, hip hooray! Street and Brace have put their heads together and came up with a book about idioms that hits the topic right on the nose for elementary school students and English language learners. This handy volume allows readers to have hundreds of idioms at their fingertips so they can stay on their toes...read more

Presents a collection of animal sayings with each one explained, including 'I have butterflies in my stomach,' 'that will get his goat,' and 'bear hug.'

Defines and illustrates more than four hundred metaphors and similes involving animals, such as 'I rule the roost', 'I got egg on my face', and 'Let sleeping dogs lie.'