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HERE’S the list of ‘helpful’ suggestions from PETA for teachers to use with their pupils instead of the current ‘harmful’ phrases. It recommends: ‘Let the cat out of the bag’ is changed to ‘Spill the beans’ ‘Be a guinea pig’ to ‘Be the test tube’ ‘Hold your horses’ to ‘Hold the phone’ ‘Open a can of worms’ to ‘Open Pandora’s box’ ‘Bring home the bacon’ to ‘Bring home the bagels’ ‘Put all your eggs in one basket’ to ‘Put all your berries in one bowl’ ‘Kill two birds with one stone’ to ‘Feed two birds with one scone’ ‘Take the bull by the horns’ to ‘Take the flower by the thorns’ ‘Flog a dead horse’ to ‘Feed a fed horse’ ‘More than one way to skin a cat’ to More than one way to peel a potato’