Collective Nouns, Similes, Idioms, Metaphors and Expressions

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Sheep

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

• A down of sheep
• A drift of sheep
• A drove of sheep
• A fall of lambs
• A flock of sheep
• A fold of sheep
• A herd of sheep
• A meinie of sheep
• A mob of sheep
• A parcel of sheep
• A pride of sheep
• A trip of sheep

​SIMILES

• 1.    As gentle as a lamb
• 2.    As innocent as a lamb
• 3.    As meek as a lamb
• 4.    As stupid as sheep
• 5.    A mob of rams

IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

• A wolf in sheep's clothing
• As meek as a lamb
• As well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
• Count sheep
• Every time a sheep bleats, it loses a nibble
• Go like a lamb to the slaughter 
• In like a lion, out like a lamb
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Lamb of God
• Like a lamb to the slaughter
• Like a flock of sheep
• Mutton dressed as lamb
• One might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Separate the sheep from the gate    
• The black sheep of the family
• To look sheepish
• To make sheep's eyes at ...
• To separate the sheep from the goats
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail