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Undesirable, Rejected, Unpopular, Excluded. All mean the same as unwelcome or unwanted.
To convey the sense of making someone feel unwelcome or unwanted, several idiomatic expressions capture this sentiment effectively: **Give someone the cold shoulder**: This idiom suggests intentionally ignoring or excluding someone, indicating a lack of warmth or hospitality. **Give someone the brush-off**: Similar to the cold shoulder, this phrase implies dismissing or disregarding someone, often abruptly or rudely. **Put someone off**: This idiom signifies creating distance or disinterest, conveying the idea of discouraging someone from further interaction. **Make someone feel like a third wheel**: This expression suggests making someone feel superfluous or out of place, particularly in social situations where they perceive themselves as unwanted. **Shut someone out**: This phrase implies excluding someone from participation or involvement, often indicating deliberate isolation or rejection. **Leave someone out in the cold**: This idiom conveys the feeling of abandonment or neglect, leaving someone feeling unwelcome or unsupported. **Give someone the silent treatment**: This expression indicates deliberately refusing to communicate with someone, conveying a sense of rejection and isolation. **Put up a barrier**: This phrase suggests creating obstacles or boundaries that prevent someone from feeling included or accepted. **Make someone feel like a fish out of water**: This idiom describes the sensation of being uncomfortable or out of place, emphasizing the feeling of being unwelcome or unwanted in a particular environment. **Send someone packing**: This expression denotes dismissing or expelling someone, often with a sense of finality or rejection. Each of these idioms captures the notion of making someone feel unwelcome or unwanted through various nuances of exclusion, neglect, or dismissal.
The literal meaning is to be in water that is deeper than one is tall. The idiomatic meaning is to be too deeply involved with someone or something, beyond what one can deal with.
The literal meaning is to be in water that is deeper than one is tall. The idiomatic meaning is to be too deeply involved with someone or something, beyond what one can deal with.
If someone has a swelled head, they are conceited or a braggart. It is as if their head is so full of themselves that it has swollen up.
If you "send someone for errands" you're giving them a meaningless task to do just to get them out of your way.
The meaning of the idiomatic expression, get a foothold in, is that you only need a small opening. This phrase is often used in business. One example of getting a foothold in would be getting an introduction to someone who works in a company that you would like to work in.
Troubleshooter isn't an idiom because it's not a phrase. It's SLANG meaning someone who looks for trouble and fixes it. Think of someone with a gun trying to shoot and destroy spots of trouble and you'll see the meaning.
It means just what it sounds like - someone is not moving at all, not even one muscle.
To exclude someone
to show someone that they aren't welcome
That is not an idiom. It means exactly what it says, that someone was roused to eternal wakefulness. You might need a dictionary instead.