[Music] hey there it's detective Meg and we've got some serious business to talk about the mystery of understanding the figurative language of idioms needs to be solved and I need your help the idiom is one of the trickier types of figurative language but don't worry with our combined investigative skills we will solve this mystery together first step in solving the mystery is to understand that it ends are usually common phrases but if you break them apart into the individual words the meaning will not be the same it keeps things interesting and is both tricky and exciting in our reading and writing you see idioms are the Wild Card a figurative language while symes and metaphors are figurative language that compare things idioms are figurative language that are a fun way to talk about something that might even seem a bit silly if you're not careful they might confuse you take a simple sentence like read your book and study and turn it into HIIT the books well if you break apart the phrase read your book and study it looks something like this if you break apart HIIT the books it looks like this now actually hitting your books isn't the message here instead it's an idiom that means read your book so hit the books is an idiom let's keep looking at idioms and practicing cracking the mystery of how to understand them and use them to make our writing more colorful and interesting see there's one cookie left and it was supposed to go to Ryan the lion but somebody ate the cookie before Ryan could Ryan's pretty upset so we both separately try to solve the mystery of who ate that last cookie eventually we investigate together which helps us find cluthes faster I say two heads are better than one this is an idiom and also a great lesson because working together to solve something is important and helpful let's try break the I let's say that there's a new student at school they seem cool they even have the same shoes as you you want to be friends with them but you don't quite know how to approach them then you see their shoelaces are un tied so you say hey your shoelaces are un tied hopefully they'll say thanks from here you can tell them that you have the same shoes this is a way to break the ice you're melting away the nervousness of making a new friend with warm and also we ice all right detectives let's put all of our Clues together together not we use figurative language to keep our writing interesting idioms catch our attention by saying hit the hay instead of go to sleep sure you can say I'm going to sleep but it's way more fun to say going to hit the hay idioms can be helpful for us detectives this code language can help us investigate the mysteries of our writing let's return to the missing cookie we're so close to cracking the case on who took the last cookie it might feel impossible to find our culprit Which idiom would we use to describe something that is extremely hard to find needle in a hay stack or once in a blue milkk that's right needle in a hay stack great [Music] job but then we find cookie crumbs leading into the office I say this could be the missing puzzle piece is that another way of saying this is not a clue or this could help us solve the mystery that's great finding the missing puzzle piece is one way of saying we could be closer to solving the mystery now we could only find whoever was in the office [Music] last well detectives I suppose the cab is out of the bag that's another way of me saying the truth has been revealed the truth that is about idiens and I also over in a cookie anyway now you're ready to add idioms to your own writing good luck Detectives [Music]