No, it would be a kind of pun, It makes sense if you think about it, while an idiom wouldn't make any sense until you knew the definition. A byte is a unit of information, so if someone was short some bits, they wouldn't be as smart as they should be.
Eight bits are in one byte
One byte equals eight bits.
There are always eight bits in a byte
one byte comprised of eight bits
Eight bits in a byte.
There are eight bits in a byte - that's where the name came from... "by eight"
Generally speaking, eight bits to a byte. There is no actual standard that defines how many bits are in a byte, but it has become something of a de facto standard.
A series of 8 bits is a Byte.
Eight bits are 1 byte. The word 'byte' was coined from the word "by eight" - 1 bit multiplied by 8.
A Byte is a collection of eight bits that can represent a single character.
8 bits grouped together is called a byte. A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that typically consists of eight bits. Bytes are often used to represent a character such as a letter, number, or symbol in a computer's memory. The size of a byte can vary depending on the computer architecture, but it is typically 8 bits on most modern systems.
Byte!