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.