Means you were punished severely. The book is the penal code-meaning they used everything in it.
Means you were punished severely. The book is the penal code-meaning they used everything in it.
idiom means expression like a page in a book
his comment has a depressing effect on others
"You threw me for a loop" means that you surprised me or that I wasn't expecting that. It could also mean it caught you off guard and you totally weren't expecting it.
judging someone by the way they look, not who they are as a person
This expression is not an idiom, since its meaning can be guessed from the words in it. To read someone like a book is to know what that person means or intends, simply by observing the person's appearance and demeanor.
If someone hangs you out to dry, it means that they have left you to take the consequences and escaped themselves.
someone threw a clock out the window
It means that you threw or shot something and hit a bucket.Do you perhaps mean KICK the bucket? To "kick the bucket" is an idiom that means to die.
One example of an idiom in "The Book Thief" is "run like the wind," which means to run very fast or with great speed. In the book, this idiom is used to describe characters moving quickly or urgently.
RFP is not an idiom. It's an abbreviation.
It's not really an idiom. It means "what are you thinking about."