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Is dead as a doornail an idiom hyperbole or a simile?

It is actually an idiom.


Is the sentence this homework is taking forever a idiom or a hyperbole?

Idiom


Is blew his top a hyperbole?

No, "blew his top" is considered an idiom.


Is That guy just leapt about a hundred feet into the air and idiom?

Hyperbole


What figure of speech is life is a bowl of cherries?

"Life is just a bowl of cherries" is a popular idiom that at one point was made into a song. It simply means that life is good and everything is going great!


Is feeling blue a hyperbole?

In fact, no, feeling blue is not a hyperbole, it's more of a metaphor. A hyperbole is a exaggeration.


Is run in is a metaphor of arrested?

No. It is an idiom.


What does the idiom every time I turn around mean?

It is just an exaggerated way of saying something happens quite often - it is hyperbole, not an idiom.


Is fire in your eyes an idiom?

Yes, its an idiom because it's a saying. It might also be either a hyperbole(an exaggeration) or a metaphor(a comparison between two things without using like, as, or than).


What does the idiom even if it kills you mean?

This isn't an idiom because it means just what it seems to mean - you're going to do something even if it kills you. Of course, most people don't really mean that, so it IS an exaggeration or hyperbole.


Is half of forever an idiom or a hyperbole?

As it stands it is a figurative expression and therefore an idiom. In context it could also conceivably be a hyperbolic statement, ie. an exaggeration. It is more aptly a non sequitur, as half of forever is still, in effect, forever.


Is an idiom the same thing as a hyperbole?

No. Hyperbole is an exaggeration. I was so cold last night that my nose turned into an icicle and dropped off. An idiom is any combination of words in a language where the meaning is not quite what you might expect. When Dubya tried to talk French the way he didn't know how to pronounce 'r' stuck out a mile. 'Stuck out a mile' just means 'was very obvious'.