Gebrauch von ausgewählten Tierphraseologismen im Deutschen

The article presents the use of idioms which contain names of animals. The analysis is based on a survey which included 66 German students. The survey had two main goals. The first one was to compare the answers of respondents with dictionary entries to check if the dictionary description still matches the actual usage. The second goal was to present the most popular animal idioms, which could be used in teaching German as a foreign language.The article presents parts of the author’s master’s thesis.