to want to do something; a wanting to entertain oneself
Clockwork isn't an idiom that I'm aware of. The work means something that is mechanical, driven by old-fashioned gears and wheels. It can also mean something that runs as smoothly as if mechanical, or something repetitive and mechanical-seeming.
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.
Like a stone in a creek that you would step on to get to the other side, the idiom usually refers to a job or other position that you think of not as the final destination in your career path but as something you use to help you get to your destination/goal.
If you think about this, you can figure it out. If fish are trapped in a barrel, how could they get away from a gun? It means something is ridiculously easy.
jump a lots
"Racking his brain" means that he was thinking really hard to figure something out. For example, "He was sitting in a corner racking his brain over why his girlfriend broke up with him." This means that the man was trying really hard to figure out why his girlfriend broke up with him.
It means to be intelligent. The brain is between the ears.
To feed your brain means to gain more knowledge. A related idiom is food for thought, and that is something to consider or ponder. "You should go to the library and feed your brain."
You can guarantee something.
Someone is complimenting your intelligence.
Idiom
flatter her to get something
It depends on how you use it. If you mean literal colors, then it's not an idiom. If you say something like "It's all there in black and white," then it's an idiom meaning that something is printed.
Eternal isn't an idiom. It's a word. Idioms are phrases that seem to mean one thing but mean something else.
It's not an idiom - it means a cup with some tea in it. NOT your cup of tea, however, is an idiom - it means that something is not to your liking or preference.
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Clockwork isn't an idiom that I'm aware of. The work means something that is mechanical, driven by old-fashioned gears and wheels. It can also mean something that runs as smoothly as if mechanical, or something repetitive and mechanical-seeming.