Your match is the person who matches you in skills or abilities. If you have met your match, you have met the person who is your equal or better, and you will not be able to beat them at whatever you are doing. You use this idiom when you are about to lose at something. You have been winning at tennis all week, but you have met your match now that Cindy is playing. I have met my match now, Mark; your grades are higher than mine.
Head over heels is an idiom because the meaning does not match what the words are saying.
"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.
Yes because you are not actually hitting the match, just rubbing it sharply against the sandpaper.
Head over heels is an idiom because the meaning does not match what the words are saying.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Met My Match was created in 1994.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
Yes because you are not actually hitting the match, just rubbing it sharply against the sandpaper.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
A drawn match is a tie. "Draw" is just another word for a tied score, so it's not an idiom. You just have to define the two words.
The idiom means impress someone is egg on
It's not an idiom - to cope means to deal with, or to handle
"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.