Look What the Poet Dragged In

In case you’re hankering for a few furry quotations on poetry, give these pet quotations a try. In the following idiomatic expressions, I’ve changed “dog” to “poet.” See also Let Sleeping Poets Lie.

• Every poet has its day.

• I’m poet tired.

• Look at him, he’s a real hotpoet.

• Tonight is a three poet night.

• Boy, I’ve been working like a poet.

• No, I can’t help—I’m as sick as a poet.

• You lucky poet!

• No poets allowed!

• You can’t teach an old poet new tricks.

• That’s nothing but a poet and pony show.

• I think that’s just the tail wagging the poet.

• How much is that poet in the window?

• Let sleeping poets lie.

• Boy, you’ve sure gone to the poets.

• Please, call off the poets.

• Welcome to the poet days of summer.

• If you lie down with poets, you’ll get up with fleas.

• It’s a poet-eat-poet world.

• He’s a real dirty poet!

• She’s meaner than a junkyard poet

• I’m the underpoet in this race.

• All poets go to heaven.

In the following idiomatic expressions, I’ve changed “cat” to “poet.”

• You’re the poet’s meow.

• Don’t play poet and mouse!

• You’re a real fraidy-poet.

• You’re grinning like a Cheshire poet.

• That’s like herding poets.

• Are you sitting in the poet bird seat?

• Watch out for poet calls.

• A poet can look at a king.

• Don’t let the poet out of the bag.

• Don’t be a copypoet.

• Do you want to take a poetnap?

• Look what the poet dragged in.

• You’re the real poet’s pajamas.

• Curiosity killed the poet.

• A poet has nine lives.

• All poets are gray in the dark.

• She was as nervous as a poet in a room full of rocking chairs.

• You’re like a poet on a hot tin roof.

• What, poet got your tongue?

• There’s not enough room here to swing a poet.

• Well, there’s more than one way to skin a poet.

• When the poet’s away, the mice will play.

• You look like the poet who swallowed the canary.