Let us talk today about the names of animals, applied to people:
CHICKEN :
CHICKEN MAY BE: a noun, an adjective and a verb.
CHICKEN noun means a coward. He wouldn’t agree, he is such a clicken!
CHICKEN adjective takes a position of a predicative: She was too chicken to participate.
CHICKEN verb He wanted to make a jump but chickened out in the end.
PIG noun — this is a person who eats too much/someone who is bad to other people/a policeman.
PIG/PIG OUT means eat to much: We pigged out on the chops as if we had been hungry for days.
We shall continue talking about animals tomorrow.
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