Trindale Elementary Staff Celebrates Idiom Day! Asst. Principal Todd Henderson organized a day to celebrate idioms. Staff members selected an idiom to portray and then dressed accordingly. The students not only learned about idioms and their meanings, but they “had a blast” guessing them! Ants in my pants…Eyes at the back of my head…Sick as a dog…Change of heart All eyes on me… Once in a blue moon…X marks the spot…Cold Shoulder…Old school…Apple of my eye…Read between the lines…Got a frog in my throat…Nuts about you….An arm and a leg… Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth…Dressed to the nines…Got a monkey on my back…Got my ducks in a row…Butterflies in my stomach…Smarty Pants…Wearing my heart on my sleeve Idiom: noun \ˈi-dē-əm\ : an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own …from the MerriamWebster Dictionary Busy bee…Don’t let the cat out of the bag…Got a bug in my ear…Hold your horses A picture is worth a thousand words…You’ve got a chip on your shoulder Back to square 1…A little birdie told me…A pat on the back…It’s all Greek to me