[Idiom] Idioms

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markjoyce

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Kindly send me the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions:

- to sleep for good
- make soup out of me
- a bed of roses

Hope for your immediate response for this matter.

Thank you,

Joyce
 

Charlie Bernstein

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These expressions are not idiomatic. They are simply turns of phrase.

I speak U.S. American and have never heard the first two. Tdol is probably right about what they might mean. A bed of roses is a type of expression called a cliche. It means a very comfortable situation: Her old job was terrible, but her new job is a real bed of roses.
 

Tdol

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I would say that a cliché can be idiomatic- a phrase can be a member of both groups.
 
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