"Feeling blue" IS an idiom - you cannot literally feel the color blue! Feeling blue means that you're sad.
Feeling blue means you are sad or possibly depressed.
Feeling blue means you are sad or possibly depressed.
In fact, no, feeling blue is not a hyperbole, it's more of a metaphor. A hyperbole is a exaggeration.
An idiom is a phrase that makes no sense unless you know the definition. "Feeling" is a word.
"The idiom 'that just kills' is hardly appropriate at a funeral."
An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be guessed from the meaning of the words in it. It makes no sense unless you know the definition. "Feeling" is a word.
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Does the literal meaning make no sense? Then it's an idiom. Have you ever seen anyone really have a blue face? Nope.
"Tom was feeling under the weather after catching a cold."
"Blue blood" LITERALLY means blood that is blue in color.
An example of an idiom in "The Bean Trees" is "out of the blue," which means something unexpected or sudden.