know your commonplace figurative uses of animal shit compounds

• bullshit · connotes hypocrisy, lies, and red tape as in why should i put up with all this bullshit? to bullshit is to bluff or to make small talk.
• horseshit · connotes crumminess as in he did a horseshit job, and this motor is running horseshit.
• chickenshit · means “something petty” as a noun and “trivial” as an adjective as in mom is making me do all these chickenshit chores.
• batshit · means “exceedingly crazy” as in that old lady is batshit, she’s holding a conversation with a rhododendron bush.
• apeshit · to go apeshit means to go ballistic or to fly off the handle.