1- It is NOT an idiom (check your dictionary).
2- It is NOT "down in the bumps".
3- It IS "DOWN IN THE DUMPS", not bumps.
4- "Down in the dumps" means DEPRESSED.
i HOPE MY CORRECTING OF YOU DOES NOT CAUSE YOU TO FEEL "DOWN IN THE DUMPS" BTW: the use of CAPS is not necessarily meant to be SHOUTING !!! Caps are also used to highlight certain words and phrases.
Bless your heart.
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.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
I'd say that's more of a true statement rather than an idiom. Prices never DO come down - they always go up.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
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.
It is an Idiom meaning "to weaken, make feelbe or dilute"
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
I'd say that's more of a true statement rather than an idiom. Prices never DO come down - they always go up.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
This is an idiom meaning to narrow your focus down. It can also mean to narrow your aim and focus on one thing to hit. Picture the zero as a target and you get the idea of the idiom.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
This is not an idiom. A boardwalk is a type of pier, usually found at the seashore. It's dark and private underneath, so people go down there to kiss and make out.
Every car slows down for speed bumps... that's what speed bumps are for.
The idiom means impress someone is egg on
It's not an idiom - to cope means to deal with, or to handle