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