🐦 Bird
"Pecking order"
Meaning
The order of importance in a group.
About the bird
Birds move freely and are early risers, so their idioms cover freedom, gossip, and getting a head start.
Example sentence
In our house, Grandma is at the top of the pecking order.
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Which idiom means...
The order of importance in a group.
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