Cooking with gas: performing with skill, energy, enthusiasm, and excellence
It is a way of expressing enthusiasm that someone is making very good progress, or has just gotten an important insight into something.
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.
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It means just what it sounds like - someone is not moving at all, not even one muscle.
No, it is a statement that someone is a good student. Idioms are things that don't make sense unless you know the hidden meaning, like "Mr. Jones passed away."
she monitors everything that is happening through all her senses and report them to the school management. just like a spy.
lt means like extremly angry.
It's not an idiom. It means just what it sounds like -- someone or something is gone away forever, they're no longer here.
This is not an idiom. It means just what it sounds like it means -- somebody was roused into eternal wakefulness. You just need a dictionary, I suppose.
The expression is not idiomatic. It means exactly what it says. To be sent on ( or for) errands means to be out on a shopping trip, or such like, for someone. Mother sent me on errands to the grocery store and the dry cleaners.
It's not an idiom. Bees actually do hum, because their wings beat so fast that it makes a humming sound.
"Penny for your thoughts" means "I would like you to tell me what you are thinking about"
"It is all Greek to me" it is an English idiomatic expression and the meaning is that something is said that makes no sense, it's like a foreign language, it is not understandable. Which is not true, since the Greeks say "It's all Chinese to me".