"Ill" means bad or poor -- taking something ill means taking it poorly or badly.
"Take you out in a box" is an idiom for "murder" in that you will be carried away in a coffin.
It means that you "Take a look" or to look at something.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
It's not an idiom because it means exactly what it seems to mean. To take offence at something means to be offended or insulted by the something, so "did not take offence" means the opposite.
"Take heart" means to be courageous or hopeful, to think positively
There is no literal idiom -- an idiom is a phrase that seems to mean one thing but actually means something else. The word "literal" means to take the words exactly as they seem to be.An idiom is a phrase particular to a language that is accepted for its figurative meaning, as in "That amazing shot blew me away." Everyone understands that this person means he was amazed. A literal idiom would be the usually humorous thing that happens when you take the idiom for its word for word, not accepted, meaning. That would mean that somehow the amazing shot actually created the air mass necessary to blow this guy away.
To take the most possible out of the system using it to your absolute advantage.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
It means to take control of something and maybe get it working again or improve a situation.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
Can you figure out the meaning by defining the terms literally? No, so it is an idiom. Literally, it means to remove something, but figuratively it means for an airplane to get off the ground.