Tag: cunning as a fox
Tall Story
Word of the Day: Tall Story A tall story is one that’s hard to believe. In our picture for today, we can see that the police have come to arrest a banker. We can imagine that the banker is as cunning as a fox. He’s telling the police a tall story about how he pays…
Sly as a fox
English Cliché: Sly as a fox Some people are so intelligent and clever that they can get anything they want. Most of the time, the term sly as a fox is used negatively to describe these people. For example, there is a lot of telephone fraud these days targeting older people. Quite often, the perpetrator calls an…
