Which of the following statements uses an idiom?
a. the vinyl sign above the sign shop was bubbling and peeling in the hot sun.
b. once we had the fish out the water, it flopped around on the dock.
c. the bare trees looked like parishioners stretching their hands to heaven.
d. try walking a mile in his shoes before you pass judgment.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief