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Idioms: sheep

intelligence. It follows a "leader", and too bad if this leader isn't really wise...

Yet, you may have fun counting whole flocks of sheep to go to sleep... 

- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy

- Death devours lambs as well as sheep

- Shear the sheep but don't flay them

- Better to lose the wool than the sheep

- Better be hanged for a sheep than a lamb...

- A bleating sheep loses a mouthful... 

- The sheep is in the sheepfold

- It's a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

Don't count too many... and remain concentrated for the test... It's not difficult at all! Go for it, 

and thanks for working with me!  

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1. When the shepherd noticed the stray sheepa bleating sheepthe black sheepI don't know, he ordered the dog to bring it back to the flock.



2. 'Stop complaining for nothing and remember that a black sheepa bleating sheepa stray sheepI don't know loses a mouthful…'



3. 'Don’t devour lamb as well as sheeplose the woolmake sheep's eyes atI don't know all the girls of the group… Your girlfriend looks quite angry at you…'



4. 'They’re like a flock of sheepbleating sheepstray sheepI don't know and would follow you anywhere without protesting…'



5. 'Devon is wild and rebellious… He likes to think he is the stray sheepthe black sheepbleating sheepI don't know of the family…'



6. 'Don’t trust Susie, your co-worker… She’s the bleating sheepthe black sheep of the familya wolf in sheep's clothingI don't know and will steal your position if she can…'



7. 'I’m old enough to go to the party unsupervised… I really don’t need a sheepdoga flock of sheepa stray lambI don't know. Don’t worry!'



8. Devouring sheepMaking sheep's eyesCounting sheepI don't know will teach you how to count, but it won’t help you fall asleep…



9. Some young people make sheep's eyesare like sheepshear the sheepI don't know, following the latest fashion and dressing the same, as if they were wearing a uniform…



10. 'For the group work, I won’t count sheepshear the sheepseparate the sheep from the goatsI don't know and will mix the calm students and troublemakers…'