tried googling it but I only got the idiom and not an actual answer

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You are indeed not correct, paws are distinctly different from hands and the muzzle is a specific part of an animal's face.

Paws are different from hands in that they're made up ONLY of fingers, the equivalent to our wrist is way above the paw as part of the leg.

And the muzzle (also called snout) is the jaws+nose, the bit on e.g. a dog that sticks out in front of the face. It doesn't include things like the eyes.

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