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	Idiom: an expression having a special meaning which is not clear from the usual meaning of the words in the expression To horse around Definition: to play around EXAMPLE: I wish the children wouldn't horse around at the supper table. EXAMPLE: The athletes like to horse around after practice. Cat got your tongue Definition: can't you talk EXAMPLE: Can you answer the question or has a cat got your tongue. EXAMPLE: Cat got your tongue? For the birds Definition: uninteresting, meaningless, unimportant or boring information/event EXAMPLE: The movie was for the birds, so we left at the intermission. EXAMPLE: The lecture was for the birds. We didn't learn anything! Fishy Definition: something/someone suspicious EXAMPLE: I left my money right here. Now it's gone. Something is fishy here. EXAMPLE: Those men with the guns and masks look fishy to me.