animals and non-animals

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/12/2011 06:33 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>A commenter on a blog linked to an  "Animal Idioms" page.
>
>http://www.doghause.com/idioms.asp
>
>Mostly benign stuff, although some are poorly defined or unusually worded.
>
>     Bear down

The hunter's equivalent of the policeman's "officer down"?

Joel

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