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COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILES, IDIOMS, METAPHORS and EXPRESSIONS

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Pigs, Boars and Hogs

COLLECTIVE NOUNS
General:

• A drift of pigs
• A doylt of (tame) pigs
• A drove of pigs
• A flock of pigs
• A herd of pigs 
• A sounder of (wild) pigs

Boars:

• A singular of boars
• A herd of boars
• A sounder of boars (wild boars)

Hogs:

• A drift of hogs
• A drove of hogs
• A parcel of hogs
• A passel of hogs
• A sounder of hogs
• A team of hogs

Piglets:

• A farrow of piglets
• A litter of piglets
• A squeal of piglets

Pigs

• A drove of pigs
• A fleet of pigs
• A herd of pigs
• A sounder of pigs

Swine:

• A doylt of (tame) swine
• A drift of (tame) swine
• A drove of swine
• A herd of swine
• A sounder of (wild) swine
• A trip of (tame) swine

Warthogs:

• A sounder of warthogs

Wild Boar

•      1 .  A sounder of wild boar

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SIMILES

• As amusing as a piglet
• As fat as a pig
• As happy as a pig in mud

IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

• A male chauvinist pig
• A pig in a poke
• A pig's ear
• Be a hog
• Big enough to choke a hog
• Bleed like a pig
• Bring home the bacon
• Buy a pig in a poke
• Cast pearls before swine
• Dirty rotten swine1
• Eat high on/off the hog
• Eat like a pig
• Even a blind hog occasionally finds an acorn
• Go hot-wild
• Go the whole hog
• Guinea-pig
• In a pig's eye
• Independent as a hog on ice
• Hogwash
• Like a stuck pig
• Living high on a hog
• Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
• On the pig's back
• Pearls before swine
• Pig it
• Pig out
• Piggy bank
• Pig-headed
• Piggyback
• Pigs in clover
• Pigs might fly
• Road hog
• Sell the pig and buy me out
• Sweating like a pig
• To cast pearls before swine
• To go hog wild
• To hog
• When pigs fly

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