I have never heard this. It's usually 'like a dose of salts', meaning fast and thoroughly.
'She arrived with a basket of cleaning supplies and went through the house like a dose of salts.'
Fools gold [pyrite] does not come in flakes like slate but is randomly shaped and cannot come cleanly off in flakes.
Lux soap flakes typically contain soap, water, glycerin, and fragrance. They are designed for gentle laundry use and are free of harsh chemicals like bleach or optical brighteners.
The gold flakes in water softener media are typically resin beads that have a yellow color and may appear gold-like due to a reflection of light. This coloration does not affect the performance of the water softener and is normal.
Yes, gold flakes are real gold. They are very thin pieces of gold that have been hammered or pressed into a flake-like shape. Gold flakes are used in various applications, such as in food decoration and in crafts.
White flakes can refer to dried skin that has flaked off, often associated with conditions like dry skin, eczema, or psoriasis. It can also refer to dandruff, which is small pieces of dead skin that flake off the scalp.
That IS a sentence.
Leaders like her are a dime a dozen.
I had to drop that project like a hot potato when I found out about all the issues with it.
A False friend is just like a snake in the grass.
There are no idioms in this sentence. If something is "like ___" or "as ___ as ___" then you are looking at a simile. Think "similar" and you can remember simile.
The idea that lightening was electricity struck Ben Franklin like a bolt from the blue.
It's not an idiom. It's just a sentence -- to be young again means that you are once more younger in age. This can be literally -- like in a science fiction time travel story -- or it can be figurative -- like your mind is young again.
An idiom is a phrase that appears to make sense, but actually has another meaning. If the sentence makes sense, but seems to mean something besides what it looks like, then it is an idiom. "Frank kicked the bucket" makes perfect sense, and when you realize that it means "Frank died," you have two different meanings.
idiom means expression like a page in a book
It's not an idiom. It means exactly what it looks like.
idiom is like discribe e.g as light as a feather
It is an idiom, because it does not use the term "like" or "as".