If you take a fancy to eating chocolates you will get fat.
He took a fancy to her way of speaking.
"They will try to make you mad, but keep your shirt on while I make the deal." "The waitress told the impatient customer to keep his shirt on, and that he would be served when it was his turn."
(mostly a British idiom - to make more palatable)"The city raised property taxes, but to sugar the pill, they reduced the sales tax."*The US idiom closest to this is to sugarcoat, but this has the implication of making something bad appear good, e.g. To sugarcoat the bad economic news. (also known as positive spin)
this is a sentence using the word armchair.
This is not an idiom. Idioms make little or no sense unless you know the definition. This sentence makes perfect sense, so it is not an idiom. The dead fish smelled so bad that even as high as Heaven, you could smell them.
Please comment on my sentence.
"Animal" is not an idiom. An animal is a living thing with more than one cell which cannot make its own energy.
To include an idiom in an example sentence, simply incorporate the idiom naturally into the sentence to convey a figurative meaning. For example, "She had a chip on her shoulder" is an idiom meaning she was easily offended or held a grudge.
Take a punch means to take a bow. When the sir won the trophy, his students took a punch.
My cousin's current favorite idiom is 'as nice as spice'.
"They will try to make you mad, but keep your shirt on while I make the deal." "The waitress told the impatient customer to keep his shirt on, and that he would be served when it was his turn."
That bully is about to deliver his famous knuckle sandwich.
A False friend is just like a snake in the grass.
(mostly a British idiom - to make more palatable)"The city raised property taxes, but to sugar the pill, they reduced the sales tax."*The US idiom closest to this is to sugarcoat, but this has the implication of making something bad appear good, e.g. To sugarcoat the bad economic news. (also known as positive spin)
this is a sentence using the word armchair.
Make a sentence using hypothesis, controlled experiment and variable. Make a sentence using hypothesis, controlled experiment and variable.
When the project was assigned, other homework assignments got put on the back burner.
This sentence does not make any sense.