ogon Englisch:

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

As a tadpole grows, the tail disappears and legs begin to form.

I can't make head nor tail of it.

If you cut the tail off of a lizard, it will grow back.

The tail of a fox is longer than that of a rabbit.

the horse has tail

It was naughty of Mary to pull the kitten's tail.

Despite the fact that Mary keeps saying I was the only man she'd like to marry, when I proposed to her, she said "NO". I cannot make head or tail of it.

Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lies in the tail, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Just as if it were my tail, wherever I go, it goes too.

sit on somebody's tail

The farmer wants to start milking again, but now the cow is hitting him with her tail.

The animal sprays liquid from a gland under its tail.

There's the whole long tail problem they have.

a tiled floor

He covered the floor with tiles.

He looked back at the brown tiles of the floor.

Some of the tiles were blown off the roof during the storm.

The tiles that fell from the roof broke into pieces.

bathroom tiles

I'm in a queue

Rob is late for the programme because there was such a long queue for coffee!

A queue is a line of people waiting for something to happen. We see queues in amusement parks, the supermarket and at the cinema when a new movie is released.

To form in a line while waiting (often followed by up). To arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc) into a queue.

Please hold the line so as not to lose your place in the queue.

At the train station, once I had figured out where the queue for tickets actually was, I began the long wait.

I didn't arrive in Harbin until very late, and the queue for taxis was already extremely long.

Japanese and British people usually wait at a bus stop in a queue.

Not long after I joined the queue, a man approached and asked if I wanted a taxi.

This implies a fun and relaxed working atmosphere where team achievement is highly valued, communication is extremely important and traditional 3-hour meetings have been replaced by informal chats in the queue for coffee.

People queued to buy Diablo 3.

I talk to everyone – even people next to me in the queue.

Look the queue is so long, I will not stand here.

This boy jumped a queue.

One of the reasons I prefer travelling by train is that there are often long queues at the airport.