Something that hits you fast and hard. It hurts to get hit by a brick, just like it hurts when someone tells you some bad news. The "flying" part is to imply that it [i]will[/i] hit you (because a flying brick is homing, or something), just like in real life you're going to face some hard times.
The idiom 'a flying brick' refers to something that is moving fast and without grace or style. It typically implies that the object or person is moving quickly but in a clumsy or uncontrolled manner.
It is not an idiom - it is a line from an old television cartoon called Rocky and Bullwinkle. Rocky was a flying squirrel. (Bullwinkle was a moose).
This isn't an idiom - it's talking about some animal with their tail held high, flying behind them.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
Yes, a common idiom in "The Flying Trunk" by Hans Christian Andersen is "out of the trunk" which means a surprising or unexpected development. This idiom is used when the trunk in the story unexpectedly flies to various destinations.
It's not an idiom - to cope means to deal with, or to handle
The idiom means impress someone is egg on
"Old hand" is an idiom meaning having lots of experience.
It is not an idiom. It is an expression. The difference is that an idiom's meaning cannot be derived from the meaning of its individual words. In the expression wolfing down food, the meaning is clearly derived from the meaning of the words, and people have been saying it for hundreds of years.
No. This is not an idiom. An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words. So it is not easy to know the meaning of an idiom. For example 'Let the cat out of the bag' is an idiom meaning to tell a secret by mistake. The meaning has nothing to do with cats or bags. "Treat others like you would want them to treat you" is a saying,