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The word advantage means an opportunity or benefit. It can also mean when your in a position that is superior to someone elses position, or more likely to succeed than another.
This means that she can't wait to spend the money she has.
This isn't an idiom because you can figure out what it means pretty easily. It's an exaggeration - pretending that your money is so eager to leave your pocket that it can burn a hole to get out.
According to the definition I found, comparative advantage means being able to produce a product at a lower cost than others and absolute advantage means being the best at something or producing the best product.
To exploit means to take advantage of.
it means taking advantage
"Ill" means bad or poor -- taking something ill means taking it poorly or badly.
This idiom means that a situation has reversed, with the roles or circumstances changing from what they were before. It is used to describe when the position of power or advantage shifts to the other person or party involved.
If you have an advantage you are in a better position to achieve something. For instance:- "The athlete with the longer legs had the advantage in the 100m hurdle race".
'se mouiller' means literally 'to get wet /soaked'. As an idiom, it means "to get involved by taking (some) responsibility'. You would use 'to get one's hands dirty' as an equivalent in English.
Probably you mean geothermal energy. That means taking advantage of the heat in the interior of the Earth, converting it to some useful energy.Probably you mean geothermal energy. That means taking advantage of the heat in the interior of the Earth, converting it to some useful energy.Probably you mean geothermal energy. That means taking advantage of the heat in the interior of the Earth, converting it to some useful energy.Probably you mean geothermal energy. That means taking advantage of the heat in the interior of the Earth, converting it to some useful energy.
Not the only pebble on the beach. Means: There are other alternitives. Taking sand on the beach. Means: Doing something compleatly pointless.
It's not an idiom. It means exactly what it looks like.
"The catbird's seat" means being in a position of advantage, control, or power. It refers to being in a favorable or commanding position to achieve success or influence a situation.
No. The word "idiom" is a noun. An idiom is a term or phrase whose meaning is different from the separate words in the term. For example, the idiom 'keep up' has little to do with keeping anything or with an upward direction. It means maintaining (keeping) one's relative position as it changes (goes up, i.e. increases in elapsed time or distance).
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
It is a military term that means to rush in a group up to the walls of a fortified city and attack it. The idiom meaning is to attack, either physically or mentally, someone's position (either actual or figurative).