You could say: The butterflies stirred main my stomach I was a bundle of nerves On pins and needles
Well there are a few possible choices-
1.) I was worried sick!
2.) They finally worried the correct number out of me.
3.) Don't worry about a thing.
Nothing. I'm afraid you've gotten the idiom incorrectly. It should be "the apple of her father's eye" and it means she is his special favorite. The apple of the eye is another term for the pupil or center of the eye.
No because you can figure out the meaning by context. It is slang. The meaning is being afraid. A scaredy cat is someone who worries and is scared of a lot of things.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
My Favorite IDIOM Is, When Pigs Fly.
it means to not be afraid to do something dangerous
Chicken is not an idiom, because an idiom is a phrase. Chicken, meaning afraid or cowardly, is a slang term. Slang is when you have a word (sometimes a couple of words) that local people use in a different way from the accepted meaning. Americans call someone 'chicken' not because they are domesticated birds that lay eggs and taste good fried, but because they act afraid.
It is similar to idiom 'shaking in one's boots'. It means that one is very afraid and shaking from fear.
Nothing. I'm afraid you've gotten the idiom incorrectly. It should be "the apple of her father's eye" and it means she is his special favorite. The apple of the eye is another term for the pupil or center of the eye.
Nothing. I'm afraid you've got the idiom incorrectly. Perhaps you actually heard "a bee in her bonnet," which means that someone has an idea that won't go away, as if there were a bee in their hat that they could not ignore.
Of course it can. People think chickens are cowardly, for example, but they're no more afraid than any other prey animal. We still call people "chicken" when they're afraid, though!
Idiom is correct.
No because you can figure out the meaning by context. It is slang. The meaning is being afraid. A scaredy cat is someone who worries and is scared of a lot of things.
what is a idiom about a cat
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
An idiom misuse is to use and idiom in a wrong way that doesn't make sense.