** Idiom:
An idiom is a commonly used expression whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.
> Some Common Examples:
- He’s been pushing up the daisies for a year. (He’s been dead for a year.)
- Let’s paint the town red. (Let’s have a good time in town.)
- She has a bun in the oven (She is pregnant.)
# An Idiom Is a Form of Figurative Language:
> Idioms are classified as figurative language, which is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner.
> Figurative language includes the use of metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, euphemisms, and pun.
# More Examples of Idioms:
- He was just a flash in the pan.
- (The idiom a flash in the pan means something which shows potential at the start but fails thereafter.)
- He is trying to be a good Samaritan. (A good Samaritan is a person who helps someone in need with no thought of a reward.)
- Does he have an axe to grind?
- (To have an axe to grind means to have a dispute with someone. )
- We should let sleeping dogs lie. (To let sleeping dogs lie means to o avoid restarting a conflict.)
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