An explicit metaphor is a direct comparison which contains a state of being verb. Example: His words were summer on the tongue. Onomatopoeia is sound words; words that sound like the thing they represent. Examples: bark, buzz, hoot, growl, etc.

Idiom is a phrase or a fixed expression whose figurative meaning different from its literal meaning. Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration in a literary work.

(informal) do something before the right time: They jumped the gun by building the garage before they got permission from the town council. This idiom refers to an athlete in a race who starts running before the starter has fired the gun.

The ceremonial jumping of the broom served as an open declaration of settling down in a marriage relationship. Jumping the broom was always done before witnesses as a public ceremonial announcement that a couple chose to become as close to married as was then allowed.

This phrase originated from track and field races and was known since the early 1900s. It refers to athletes starting the race before the gun was fired (which was used to signal to start of the race). This phrase was preceded in America by “beat the gun”.

The term “jumping the shark,” as coined by Jon Hein for his Website devoted to the devolution of television shows, signals a pivot point in which a writer’ room starts resorting to desperate measures to maintain viewers’ interest.

Apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action. A loss or lack of courage or confidence; an onset of uncertainty or fear. To “have cold feet” is to be too fearful to undertake or complete an action.

: to do something immediately while there is still a good chance to do it.

In 1886 the quotation collection “Edge-Tools of Speech” implausible credited Sir Walter Scott and Cromwell for the basic and extended saying, respectively: Strike while the iron is hot. — Sir Walter Scott. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

: to begin doing a new job, activity, etc., in usually a slow and simple way in order to become more familiar with it She got her feet wet at her new job by doing some simple filing tasks.

(also hit the ceiling) to become extremely angry: Dad will hit the roof when he finds out I dented the car..

: to not smile or laugh It was hard to keep a straight face with everyone else laughing.

To quit in defeat. The phrase comes from boxing, in which a fighter indicates surrender by throwing a towel into the ring: “After losing the election, he threw in the towel on his political career.”

humorous. If you say “eat your heart out” followed by the name of a famous person, you are joking that you are even better than that person: I’m singing in the village production of Tosca next month – eat your heart out Pavarotti!.

to be forced to admit that you were wrong about something: I said he’d never win, but I had to eat my words.

eat (one’s) heart out To feel great sadness. I feel just awful for Mary—she’s been eating her heart out ever since she found out she was rejected by her top-choice school.

Answer: This expression first surfaced in the late 1500’s and means “look at me and be envious” or “suffer vexation over my situation” from the Yiddish phrase “Es dir cys s’harts” or “eat out your heart”.

: an inflexible and unfriendly or unkind disposition She has a heart of stone.

It means you can’t eat a cake and continue to possess that cake once you’ve consumed it. The use of the phrase, therefore, is to tell someone that they can’t have two good things that don’t normally go together at the same time, like eating a cake and then continuing to possess that same cake so you can eat later.

to tell someone your secret feelings and things that worry you, usually because you feel a strong need to talk about them: I poured my heart out to him and then he told all his friends what I’d said..