Which animals are in phrases with skills or professions? Like …
loan shark
CIA mole
publicity hound
grease monkey
clothes horse
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Code Monkey
Cat burglar
Cash cow
Stock market bull/ bear
Drug mule
Legal eagle
Lead dog
Workhorse
Scapegoat
Lab rat (which in scientist slang refers not only to the subjects, but to the experimenters)
Yellow Dog Democrat
Dogface
People in cubicle farms who stand up to see what’s going on are said to be “prairie dogging.”
A go-fer (gopher) is someone who runs errands for others.
A bad doctor isn’t a duck but a quack.
Card shark or pool shark.
Drone.
Munch, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn once said that just about all legislators can be seen as either show horses (who hold press conferences, host high-profile events, appear on TV shows, etc.) and work horses (who actually get stuff done).
Vulture investors
drain snake
saw horse
Garden Weasel
Warships in the Age of Sail sometimes had small boys aboard who would carry gunpowder to the guns when it was needed; they were known as “powder monkeys.”
Larry Bird was a true Gym Rat.
A photographer is a shutterbug.
Tunnel rats are soldiers who go into tunnels and bunkers where enemy soldiers (like the Viet Cong or the Japanese) might be hiding.
nevermind - repeat of a prior entry.
A bodyguard is sometimes called a Gorilla.
An enthusiastic employee is an eager beaver.
bat boy
pig iron
kangaroo court
ball cock
Human guinea pig