May 19, 2012

Idiom: as prickly as a hedgehog

hedgehog

If you are as prickly as a hedgehog it is easy for someone to annoy you or to hurt your feelings.

Example of use:
Be careful what you say to your father today, he’s as prickly as a hedgehog.

Image by Karen Roe

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Angela Boothroyd is an English language teacher providing face-to-face and online English lessons for speakers of other languages. She can be also found on Twitter @StudyingOnline and Facebook.

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