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It's all uphill from here (or is that downhill?). Eating like a pig (animal idioms).
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The History of Animal Names for Human Behavior
When we compare animal behavior to human behaviors it actually says more about us than it does about the animals. We're looking at them through our own eyes and using metaphors to describe actions that are really just natural for them. The word dog is very common today its etymological history is a little murky. In Old English the Germanic word hund was the generic way to refer to our companion canines.
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