Idioms "catch on" because they are colorful ways of communicating.
It is bent out of shape. It means that someting isn't what it should be. A person bent out of shape is reacting badly to a situation.
It means out of sorts, in a bad mood. The image is of you being bent out of your normal shape or mood.
It means his voice gave out from emotion, so there was a slight hesitation in his words. It is not an idiom, but an expression whose meaning may be guessed from an understanding of the words in it.
able to be bent or otherwise changed in shape
A person that didn't sleep a wink is someone who got almost no sleep at all, and to catch 40 winks is to catch a very brief but refreshing nap. The number 40 has a wide range of citations in the Bible and may have some application to this expression.
It is bent out of shape. It means that someting isn't what it should be. A person bent out of shape is reacting badly to a situation.
I don't know if he coined the term, but Dylan used the phrase "bent out of shape by society's pliers" in the song "It's all right, Ma, I'm only bleeding" on the 1965 (?) album "Bringin' it all back home."
It cannot be bent or broken.
OF2 has a bent shape.
Bent Out of Shape was created in 1983-05.
Bent shape
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The shape of SeCl2 is "bent."
Water molecules have a bent or V-shape due to the repulsion between the lone pairs of electrons on the oxygen atom.
The general shape is "bent".
It means out of sorts, in a bad mood. The image is of you being bent out of your normal shape or mood.
The idiom "catch the moon" means pursuing an impossible or unattainable goal, something that is beyond reach or out of grasp, like trying to catch the moon in the sky. It implies striving for something that is unlikely to be achieved.