PETA Wants You to Stop Disparaging Animals with 'Supremacist Language'

 

SAN ANGELO, TX – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has released a number of idioms  used everyday that they are calling supremacist language. 

PETA wants you to stop disparaging animals by using terms like 'beat a dead horse' or 'blind as a bat.'

The animal rights organization has a list of suggestions for alternate phrases that don't put animals in a bad light. 

The following is PETA's list of supremacist language:

  • Instead of: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • Try: An ace in the hand is worth two in the deck
  • Instead of: Act like an animal
  • Try: Act like an ogre
  • Instead of: A feather in your cap
  • Try: A flower in your cap
  • Instead of: Ants in your pants
  • Try: Itches in your britches
  • Instead of: Back the wrong horse
  • Try: Back the wrong team
  • Instead of: Badger
  • Try: Pester
  • Instead of: Bats in your belfry
  • Try: Noodles in your noggin
  • Instead of: Be the guinea pig
  • Try: Be the test tube
  • Instead of: Beat a dead horse
  • Try: Feed a fed horse
  • Instead of: Be catty
  • Try: Backbite
  • Instead of: Bee in your bonnet
  • Try: Thorn in your side
  • Instead of: Be in the doghouse
  • Try: Be on someone’s bad side
  • Instead of: Bigger fish to fry
  • Try: Bigger fish to free
  • Instead of: Birdbrain
  • Try: Pea brain
  • Instead of: Blind as a bat
  • Try: Blind as the eyes on a potato
  • Instead of: Bring home the bacon
  • Try: Bring home the bagels
  • Instead of: Build a better mousetrap
  • Try: Build a better mouse pad
  • Instead of: Bull in a china shop
  • Try: Tornado in a glass factory
  • Instead of: Can’t teach an old dog new tricks
  • Try: Can’t teach an old clown new tricks
  • Instead of: Cash cow
  • Try: Moneymaker
  • Instead of: Catch more flies with honey
  • Try: Befriend more flies with molasses
  • Instead of: Chicken out
  • Try: Lose your nerve
  • Instead of: Cry over spilt milk
  • Try: Cry over spilt Silk
  • Instead of: Curiosity killed the cat
  • Try: Mind your own business
  • Instead of: Dirty dog
  • Try: Filthy fiend
  • Instead of: Dirty rat
  • Try: Dirty rascal
  • Instead of: Dog and pony show
  • Try: Halftime show
  • Instead of: Dog-eat-dog world
  • Try: Cut-throat world
  • Instead of: Dogfight
  • Try: Free-for-all
  • Instead of: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
  • Try: Don’t count your chips before they’re cashed
  • Instead of: Eat crow
  • Try: Eat your words
  • Instead of: Eat like a pig
  • Try: Gluttonize
  • Instead of: Fish or cut bait
  • Try: Cook or get out of the kitchen
  • Instead of: Fly in the ointment
  • Try: Sand in the gears
  • Instead of: Fox guarding the henhouse
  • Try: Vampire guarding the blood bank
  • Instead of: Get off your high horse
  • Try: Come down off your pedestal
  • Instead of: Go to the dogs
  • Try: Go to pot
  • Instead of: Have a dog in this fight
  • Try: Have a stake in this game
  • Instead of: Hog
  • Try: Monopolize
  • Instead of: Hold your horses
  • Try: Cool your jets
  • Instead of: Horsing around
  • Try: Messing around
  • Instead of: Kill two birds with one stone
  • Try: Feed two birds with one scone
  • Instead of: Let the cat out of the bag
  • Try: Spill the beans
  • Instead of: Like a chicken with its head cut off
  • Try: Like your hair is on fire
  • Instead of: Look like the cat who swallowed the canary
  • Try: Look as guilty as sin
  • Instead of: Mad as a March hare
  • Try: Mad as a hatter
  • Instead of: Madder than a wet hen
  • Try: Madder than an Internet troll
  • Instead of: Make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
  • Try: Make a diamond bracelet out of a lump of coal
  • Instead of: Milk it for all it’s worth
  • Try: Juice it for all it’s worth
  • Instead of: More than one way to skin a cat
  • Try: More than one way to peel an orange
  • Instead of: Not my circus, not my monkeys
  • Try: Not my problem
  • Instead of: Not my first rodeo
  • Try: Not my first roadshow
  • Instead of: One-trick pony
  • Try: One-trick magician
  • Instead of: Open a can of worms
  • Try: Open Pandora’s box
  • Instead of: Packed in like sardines
  • Try: Packed in like pickles
  • Instead of: Parrot
  • Try: Mimic
  • Instead of: Pig out
  • Try: Hoover it up
  • Instead of: Pigheaded
  • Try: Hardheaded
  • Instead of: Pull a rabbit out of a hat
  • Try: Pull a coin out of an ear
  • Instead of: Pull the wool over your eyes
  • Try: Pull the polyester over your eyes
  • Instead of: Put all your eggs in one basket
  • Try: Put all your berries in one basket
  • Instead of: Put lipstick on a pig
  • Try: Gild the lily
  • Instead of: Put the cart before the horse
  • Try: Put the caboose before the engine
  • Instead of: Quit cold turkey
  • Try: Quit cold tofu
  • Instead of: Rat out
  • Try: Nark
  • Instead of: Ruffle your feathers
  • Try: Mess up your hair
  • Instead of: Shoot fish in a barrel
  • Try: Steal candy from a baby
  • Instead of: Sitting duck
  • Try: Easy target
  • Instead of: Smell a rat
  • Try: Smell a rotten apple
  • Instead of: Snail mail
  • Try: Molasses mail
  • Instead of: Stubborn as a mule
  • Try: Stubborn as a fool
  • Instead of: Talk turkey
  • Try: Talk Tofurky
  • Instead of: That dog won’t hunt
  • Try: That boat won’t float
  • Instead of: That really gets my goat
  • Try: That really gets my goatee
  • Instead of: The straw that broke the camel’s back
  • Try: The strawberry that broke the gardener’s basket
  • Instead of: The world is your oyster
  • Try: The world is your oyster mushroom
  • Instead of: Walking on egg shells
  • Try: Walking on thin ice
  • Instead of: Weasel
  • Try: Con man
  • Instead of: We were chomping at the bit
  • Try: We couldn’t contain ourselves
  • Instead of: Wild goose chase
  • Try: Wild gooseberry chase
  • Instead of: Wolf in sheep’s clothing
  • Try: Flim-flam man
  • Instead of: Your goose is cooked
  • Try: You’re dead in the water

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