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- Apple of her eye
- Bated Breath
- Budge an inch
- Dead as a doornail
- Eating me out of house and home
- Eyesore
- For goodness' sake!
- The game is up
- Good riddance
- Green-eyed monster
- Household words
- Knock, knock, who's there?
- The naked truth
- Neither rhyme nor reason
- One fell swoop
- The primrose path
- Such stuff as dreams are made on
- Suit the action to the word
- Sweets to the sweet
- To thine own self be true
- Too much of a good thing
- Tower of Strength
- Wear my heart on my sleeve
- What's done is done

Best Answer to whoever can tell me what these idioms/phrases mean. (Whoever gets the most correct)

2007-12-08 04:18:44 · 5 answers · asked by ? 3 in Education & Reference Homework Help

5 answers

-The only person she sees romantically
-Breath that has been halted in anticipation.
-Not change your position at all
-A doornail is quite lifeless, so if you are indeed dead like one, you're pretty dead
-A person eats so much that the person saying this idiom has to buy so much food that he/she can no longer pay for their house
-Something so ugly it actually hurts to look at it
-TO do something for no other reason than the sake of being good
-A game previously being played is over. Ex. a thief has been playing cat and mouse with the police, and the police catch the thief.
-Litterally, it is good to be rid of something.
-Greed
-Words that are extremely common in homes across the country. Usually used in a marketing sense.
-A form of joke telling in which the teller involves the told in the joke.
-Truth without any fabrications or false clothing covering it up.
-Originating in poetry, neither the rhyme scheme of a poem nor its structured meter give rise to the necessity of an action.
-Done one time. "I beat the game in one fell swoop" I beat the game in one sitting.
-From Shakespeare, meaning being led down a false path by a liar and/or hypocrite.
-People see these actions and dream about them themselves.
-Not entirely familiar to this, but it seems like a lack of euphemism, calling something what it is. Not holding up daisies, a person died.
-Giving chocolates or other candies to a loved one, specifically a romantic interest. Could be used to a daughter though.
-Only ever do what you can bear yourself doing.
-You can always have too much of anything. Too much icecream and your teeth could rot, or your metabolism shut down.
-One of great power.
-Not disguising emotions.
-Nothing can be altered once it is committed.

2007-12-08 04:35:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1) her most loved or favourite 2) waiting eagerly
3) move a tiny bit 4) totally dead, useless. 5) Eating a lot of someone elses's food on a regular basis 6) Something hideous to look at, usually a building. 8) For G-d's sake.
9) It's all over. You've been found out. 10) Glad to see the back of. 11) jealousy 12) not sure on this one. 13) Star of a joke, as in "knock Knock. Who's there? Amos. Amos who? A mosquito. 14) The absolute basic truth. 15) Illogical 16) All at once. 17) Optimism, I think. 18) The sort of thing you dream about. 19) Talk about then do. 20) Giving sweet things to sweet people, like a box of chocs to your gf 21) Stick to what you believe in. 22) If everything is always good, it starts to go stale. 23) A source of support, particularly emotional or spiritual. 24) Express your emotions openly. 25) If something is complete, that's it . You can't change it.
Hope these help.

2007-12-08 04:32:14 · answer #2 · answered by SKCave 7 · 0 0

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What do the following idioms mean?
- Apple of her eye
- Bated Breath
- Budge an inch
- Dead as a doornail
- Eating me out of house and home
- Eyesore
- For goodness' sake!
- The game is up
- Good riddance
- Green-eyed monster
- Household words
- Knock, knock, who's there?
- The naked truth
- Neither rhyme nor...

2015-08-18 14:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by Bethel 1 · 0 0

For goodness sake thats a few too many. While I am a green-eyed monster, I also wear my heart on my sleeve but who wants to hear the naked truth anyway? The game is up as I'm not always a tower of strength so to mine own self I must be true. Good riddance (I don't mean to be rude but whats done is done)

2007-12-08 04:25:45 · answer #4 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 0 0

she likes you the most
deception underlying
trying your luck
completely dead
taking advantage
ugly
are you for real?
you are caught
goodbye, no regrets
jealousy
common words
guess this
truth period
no matter what this is how it is
take all at once
the sweet way of getting it done
unbelievable
tell it how you want it
i like you and want you to know i do
don't lie to yourself
anything in excess is not good
very strong person
uses emotion before brains
you can't change the past

2007-12-08 04:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by At peace with myself 3 · 0 0

That means that you will enforce whatever law has been previously mentioned. It is used in context of a parent trying to rein in an unruly child

2016-03-13 21:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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