It's not an idiom - it's a description of what happens when you get nervous and excited. Your legs feel wobbly and you might even fall over because your knees get weak and collapse underneath you.
It's not an idiom that I'm familiar with. It sounds like a description - something is either literally 3 miles long and smaller than a human hair in diameter, or it is an exaggeration of something being very long and thin.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
It is actually an idiom.
No it is a description. Something is the size of a potato.
It's not an idiom, it's a description. It's when you bleed from your nose.
It's not an idiom, it's a description. Go look in a mirror and close your mouth and you'll see what it means. It's someone who isn't talking.
This isn't actually an idiom or a metaphor. When you surrender after battle, especially in much older times, you would surrender your sword. This became synonymous with surrender. At the end of the American Revolution Cornwallis faked an illness and had his sword delivered to the American victors. It means to surrender, give up, quit, bow out gracefully.
It's not an idiom - it's a description of what happens when you get nervous and excited. Your legs feel wobbly and you might even fall over because your knees get weak and collapse underneath you.
This isn't an idiom - it's a description of someone who sees things the way that an artist sees them.
the insurance company pays the insured the cash value that has accumulated in the policy.............
It's not an idiom - it's a pretty good vivid description of someone trying to pretend to be something they are not. Imagine a peacock with fake tail feathers attached.
It's just a vivid description for eyes rolling upwards until the white part shows.
"On Jersey Shore" is not an idiom -- it's a description of where someone lives. They are on the shore or coast of the state of New Jersey.
Idiom is correct.
It's not an idiom that I'm familiar with. It sounds like a description - something is either literally 3 miles long and smaller than a human hair in diameter, or it is an exaggeration of something being very long and thin.