[Idiom] different idoms meaning

[lauricejane]

what are the meaning on this following idioms?:

-pain in the neck
-stand by your guns
-call the shots
-acquit yourself with honor
-full of hot air
-answer for
-foot the bill
-dog-eat-dog
-show one's true color
-blanket authority
-crocodile tears
-get cold feet
-fly into range
-drop it like a hot potato
-bone of contention
-a wild goose chase
-skeleton in the closet
-apple of the eye
-be an item
-friends in high places
-the honeymoon is over
-birds of feather
-the lights are on but nobody's home
-it's nothing to write home about
-run home to mama
-until the cows come

 

[5jj]

Welcome to the forum, lauricejane. :hi:

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[emsr2d2]

what are the meaning on this following idioms?:

-pain in the neck
-stand by your guns
-call the shots
-acquit yourself with honor
-full of hot air
-answer for
-foot the bill
-dog-eat-dog
-show one's true colors (and in BrE "colours")
-blanket authority
-crocodile tears
-get cold feet
-fly into range
-drop it like a hot potato
-bone of contention
-a wild goose chase
-skeleton in the closet
-apple of the eye (normally "the apple of his/her eye")
-be an item
-friends in high places
-the honeymoon is over
-birds of feather
-the lights are on but nobody's home
-it's nothing to write home about
-run home to mama
-until the cows come home

It may help you to have the correct wording when you look up the idioms. I have made a few amendments in red.