put the cat among the pigeons
- Nghĩa tiếng Việt
- Gây rối
- Định nghĩa tiếng Anh
- To say or do something that suddenly causes trouble or a heated argument.
Ví dụ: Announcing the pay cuts really put the cat among the pigeons.

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Học các thành ngữ về động vật mang hàm ý đánh giá như a red herring, a sacred cow và a snake oil salesman trong tiếng Anh nâng cao.

Ví dụ: Announcing the pay cuts really put the cat among the pigeons.

Ví dụ: The investment adviser turned out to be nothing more than a snake oil salesman.

Ví dụ: The witness's story turned out to be a red herring in the investigation.

Ví dụ: Hiring the rival firm's manager to audit us is letting the fox guard the henhouse.

Ví dụ: The concert turned out to be the singer's swan song.

Ví dụ: After the results came in, the critics had to eat crow.

Ví dụ: Reducing the marketing budget is a sacred cow nobody wants to touch.

Ví dụ: As a lame duck president, he struggled to pass new laws.

Ví dụ: Giving him good advice is like casting pearls before swine.

Ví dụ: Once we launched the campaign, we had a tiger by the tail.

Ví dụ: He kept the office locked like a dog in the manger for two years.

Ví dụ: The deputy turned out to be a viper in your bosom.

Ví dụ: Selling the workshop was killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

Ví dụ: The new terminal became a white elephant within a decade.

Ví dụ: He was a cat's paw and seems never to have noticed.

Ví dụ: Buying at auction unseen is buying a pig in a poke.

Ví dụ: She went to head office to beard the lion in his den.

Ví dụ: The black dog kept him from the office for most of that winter.

Ví dụ: Nobody wanted to launch into a bear market.

Ví dụ: Everyone looks clever in a bull market.

Ví dụ: Three days of horse trading produced a two-page agreement.

Ví dụ: Without a spokesperson they were a sitting duck all week.
