Simply putting it it is when you use animals, plants and insects behavior and combine or compare it to human behavior, you get these one-liners or traditional sayings........

I wanted to share some examples used in our everyday expressions. I am not sure how they came about, but these things are here to stay and have made the rounds. I wonder how people who translate this stuff for others make out...? Here goes.....

  • Lord love a duck.....
  • I am a bear for punishment
  • I'll be a monkeys uncle....
  • In a pigs eye...
  • The cats pajama...
  • See you later...alligator
  • After a while...crocodile
  • Its a dog's life..
  • Drunk as a skunk
  • Lead a horse to water, but cant make him drink...
  • Snug as a bug in a rug...
  • Sounds fishy to me..
  • He is like a fish out of water
  • The guy sure likes to pig out...
  • She eats like a bird...

. Some of these sayings are found randomly and commonly in fairy tales and fables. They expand on th usage and concept many times over. They are looked down on by certain religions because it supports something greater than God. Our folklore is rich with this stuff and the Greeks went all out with their tales of the Gods and their names and how they changed into animals etc and interacted with mankind. Romans followed this thinking too and......... China with martial arts training. Today, it is commonly interwoven into cultures all over the world

Beauty and the Beast

Little Red Riding Hood

Seventh Voyage of Sinbad

Lord of the Rings

Well, you........... get the picture

 

Richie Alan Naggar          Ran Right Realty       Riverside, Ca

Real Estate Broker and AUTHOR of the popular "PEARLS SERIES" of books on LIFE and LOVE

Richie@RanRightRealty.com         Richie@Pearlsforthesoul.com

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7 Comments on ANTHROPOMORPHISM .......I didn't know what it was either......

NOV
23
2010
197,033 Points

My kids were studying these in school, we had so much fun with them as the kids made up their own in class.  Now, how can we apply to RE?  That could be very fun and perhaps an extension of your post!
10:28am • #1
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I'll remain quiet as a mouse this time.
11:01am • #2
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Bruce & Sandy greetings...What a great idea.......unfortunately, I am lacking the passion to proceed. But your thinking is sound....

 

Glenn....wisely spoken.....but not to be compared to a dog with his tail between his legs......
11:17am • #3
122,957 Points

I think there are only a couple there that I've never heard of, but I've never been offended by any of them :)  Thanks for the lesson in English, History and so much more!! Have a fantastic day, Richie!!
12:17pm • #4
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Hello Leigh Ann...you are a giving person and you give from yourself.....I am better for knowing you. Thank you
1:23pm • #5
NOV
24
2010
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I have heard of newly remodeled and listed homes as "Pigs with lipstick slapped on them".
8:58am • #6
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But......Rob.....you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear........
10:21am • #7


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