IDIOMS
"Butterflies in my stomach.”
I'm nervous.
Marley was dead as a doornail.
quite dead
He was a night owl and she was an early bird.
He likes to stay up late into the evening and she likes to rise in the morning.
The tree's branches scratched the house's back when the wind blew hard.
Trees were scratching the side of the house with their branches like people scratch backs with their hands.
He gave us a thousand hours of homework to do in one night.
exaggerating the time
You are barking up the wrong tree.”
You are looking in the wrong place or asking the wrong person.
She was good as gold.
She was very well mannered.
The classroom was a zoo.
A place that was loud, crowded, uncontrolled; wild
The alarm clock yelled at me to get out of bed.
Alarm clocks don't yell they ring.
I'm so thirsty I could drain Lake Erie.
You can't drink a whole lake.
“I’m a basket case.”
I can’t do anything because I’m stressed out or panicked. I’m going crazy
She was cold as ice to her brother.
emotionally distant, unfeeling
Life is a journey.
We are like travelers through our life.
The fire swallowed the entire forest.
People swallow not Fires
Fires consume things
She talks a mile a minute.
She talks very fast.
“Don’t bite off more than you can chew.”
Don’t take on more than you can handle.
The package was light as a feather.
easy to lift;light
The boy's room was a pigsty.
His room was messy.
The moon was playing hide and seek behind the clouds.
People play not the moon.
Clouds covered the moon from sight.
My book bag weighs a ton!
It's very heavy.
Quit busting my chops.”
Stop getting after me, scolding me, or harassing me.
He was cool as a cucumber.
Calm under pressure
Time is a thief.
Time passes quickly and robs people of their time, youth, potential.
The Giving Tree
Trees can't physically give to people. People take what they need from trees.
I haven't seen him in ages.
I haven't seen him in a very long time.