{"id":499,"date":"2022-12-20T23:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yesrenee.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:04:45","slug":"idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">&#8220;It&#8217;s raining cats and dogs!&#8221; You heard someone say. Well, how <em>can<\/em> the sky really do so? No, the sky does not rain four legged animals with ears. This sentence is an idiom. And what really is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=idiom&amp;oq=idiom&amp;aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j0i67i433j0i67l3j0i67i433j69i60.2383j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">idiom<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the idiom we read above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>It's raining cats and dogs!<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This actually means,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>It's raining very hard!<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>An idiom is a phrase that says something but means something else. Also, &#8220;<em>cats and dogs<\/em>&#8221; does <strong>not<\/strong> mean &#8220;<em>very hard<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the meaning of idiom is: a phrase that says something but means something else<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More examples: The idiom will be at the top and the answer of what it actually means will be at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Every dog has its day.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Every person has a successful day in life.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>The ball is in your court.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>This is your responsibility, and you make the choice.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Spill the beans.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Reveal a secret unintentionally.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Come rain or shine.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Come, no matter what the weather is.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s raining cats and dogs!&#8221; You heard someone say. Well, how can the sky really do so? No, the sky does not rain four legged animals with ears. This sentence is an idiom. And what really is an idiom? For the idiom we read above: This actually means, An idiom is a phrase that says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-comparisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}