Maybe you have heard the term, "Couch potato" . . . that is someone who lies around watching TV for hours.
"Mouse potato" is a cute take-off from couch potato, and refers to people that sit around playing on the computer (using the 'mouse') for hours.
This is not a vegetable.
It means you are very poor.
No it is a description. Something is the size of a potato.
A couch potato is a person who is very lazy and tired all the time. It is not really a potato that sits on a couch. Sometimes people use this idiom* as an exaggeration.*Definition of Idiom: A sentence that says something else to mean the topic.A lazy person
it's a metaphor because comparing you to a couch potato
As ___ as ___ is not an idiom. Remember - AS = A Simile!The proper simile would be "as quiet as a mouse" or "as quiet as new-fallen snow."
It is an issue you really don't want to handle or get involved in or a person you really don't want in your life.
It is a fable, but you can use it to describe someone who is either a "city mouse" or a "country mouse" if you want to.
It's from America but also commonly used in Great Britain.
I had to drop that project like a hot potato when I found out about all the issues with it.
A couch potato is a person who is very lazy and tired all the time. It is not really a potato that sits on a couch. Sometimes people use this idiom* as an exaggeration.*Definition of Idiom: A sentence that says something else to mean the topic.A lazy person
If a mouse were to win a fight with a cat, it would be against "overpowering odds". The cat can easily overpower the mouse. "Winning out" is just an idiom that means the same as just "winning".So, "The mouse team is winning out against the cats against overpowering odds."
RFP is not an idiom. It's an abbreviation.