This is not an idiom - it means exactly what it says. To cause something to occur.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The correct idiom is "a chip off the old block." It typically describes a similarity seen between a family member and an older family member. One resembles the other, just as a chip of wood cut from a certain block of wood resembles the original.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
It's not an idiom - to cope means to deal with, or to handle
The idiom means impress someone is egg on
"Old hand" is an idiom meaning having lots of experience.
It is not an idiom. It is an expression. The difference is that an idiom's meaning cannot be derived from the meaning of its individual words. In the expression wolfing down food, the meaning is clearly derived from the meaning of the words, and people have been saying it for hundreds of years.
No. This is not an idiom. An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words. So it is not easy to know the meaning of an idiom. For example 'Let the cat out of the bag' is an idiom meaning to tell a secret by mistake. The meaning has nothing to do with cats or bags. "Treat others like you would want them to treat you" is a saying,
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