The idiom "make hay while the sun shines" means to take advantage of favorable conditions or opportunities while they last. It suggests that one should act decisively and make the most of a situation when circumstances are optimal.
It means talk a lot - a whole lot!
The phrase "I'm going whole hog to get your goat" means that someone is fully committed and putting in maximum effort to annoy or provoke a reaction from you. "Going whole hog" is an idiom that means doing something completely or with full effort, while "get your goat" is another idiom that means to irritate or anger someone. Therefore, when combined, the phrase implies a deliberate and thorough attempt to upset or provoke a response from you.
This is a Southern US saying meaning 'a whole lot of' something.
to go all out to get someone angry.
Nothing. The correct idiom is "ace in the hole," which literally means that you have an ace card (the highest value in the deck) hidden away somewhere so you can win the card game. It's come to mean any situation where you have a hidden advantage or something you can "pull out" to win the situation.
It's not really an idiom - "to account" is to tally up, add together, or count everything, so if you take something into account, you're adding the information into the whole.
almost the truth so tell the whole story why lie when you close to telling the whole story.
This idiom has nearly reached cliche status. It is often offered in an eulogy as an expression that someone has died early (and usually expectantly) in life and was about to do great things with his or her life.
A whole new can of worms from my dictionary means: A very complicated situation that causes a lot of problems when you start to deal with it: For example, I just don't know what to do - every solution I can think of would just open up a whole new can of worms; and given the example, the idiom phrase normally goes along with the phrasal verb "to open up".
You don't really need a whole song to remember the definition of one word. Make up a silly rhyme or short sentence instead. An idiom is a phrase that seems to mean one thing, but really means something quite different. You can't figure it out just by defining the words. You could make up any rhyme or sentence you want to. You could say "Figure out an idiom/Don't be an idiot ... or What does it mean/Don't be tense/Idioms seem/To make no sense!
It's not an idiom. It means just what it says. "Sound" means whole, healthy, or sturdy - so a sound sleep is a good, healthy one.
You really can't most of the time. The whole thing about idioms is that they make no sense if you try to figure them out literally.