I won't badger you about forgetting .... er, ... badger.

And when someone has been soundly defeated in a game of cribbage, he has been skunked.

An easy, close-in shot in basketball is a bunny.

I shall doggedly pursue more animal terms.

Release the hounds! The cat's out of the bag. Buy a pig in a poke. Cat got your tongue? My friend is hen-pecked, but he doesn't crow about it. Quit monkeying around. Quit horsing around.

Lookout! Catfight! One of them will be eating crow soon enough. The other will be the scapegoat.

Well, I've layed enough eggs, and milked this long enough.

What a ham... [and I've segued into the inevitable food thread ]