Imagine someone who is playing games. They are not doing anything serious. If someone is playing games, it means they are not serious about the situation. They could also be trying to fool you or lie to you. "He's just playing games with you -- he doesn't intend to marry you," would be an example.
Yes, but than again no it depends on what games your playing and how you go about playing them... In some ways playing violent games can change your health so be careful of what games you play okay..
The disadvantages are your eyes will hurt, and playing games on computer is not healthy to us.
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Playing video games because you are interacting with your TV
This expression's meaning may be guessed from the words in it, so it is not an idiom. To play possum is to deceive an attacker by pretending to be dead or vanquished, as the possum proverbially does.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
This is a sports idiom. If you're not playing well enough, the coach makes you sit on the sidelines of the field instead of joining the game. If you are sitting on the sidelines, you are not participating. You have been "benched." The idiom means that you're not part of whatever is going on.
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,
Teasing you .