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What does it mean to turn into a dog when heated and turn into a monkey when frozen?

“A dog becomes a monkey when it’s hot and a monkey when it’s frozen” is an online popular saying, which means that people are as hot as a dog and as cold as a monkey. It means that when the temperature is extremely hot or extremely cold, people become embarrassed. look like.

Interpretation: ① Dogs are born without sweat glands and can only dissipate heat by sticking out their tongues and panting hard. When the weather is hot, dogs will lie on the ground, stick out their tongues and gasp for air, looking very embarrassed.

② Because the monkey does not have much fat in its body, it is afraid of cold. When encountering extremely cold weather, it will shiver all over and look funny.

So the image of a person in a state of embarrassment when the weather is both hot and cold is described as turning into a dog when it is hot and turning into a monkey when it freezes.