In Hyperboles^x, Idioms^x

I guess you don't get out much, Anon. Here is a sampling of respectable online sources. Doing a bit of Google research yourself will turn up many, many more.The American Heritage Dictionary: Grammarians have sometimes objected to the so-called double genitive construction, as in a friend of my...

'The kitchen sink' = the last item of all possible items, and the normal phraseology is to throw/try/eat/gather/buy/build/etc everything but the kitchen sink. The kitchen sink itself is an arbitrary but jocular choice for this idiom: it is a large, awkward and immovable item that normally is...

The subject of my term paper is idioms. The field is so enormous and I'm just lost. At last, I came up with an idea of researching a particular class of idioms and seeing if they are driven by metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole or euphemism. Now, I need to decide what class of idioms I'm going to...