Nonliteral Phrases

My little sister was playing with toy cars. She drove them over the carpet, the kitchen floor, and the coffee table. She even drove them up the walls!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

I've told you a million times!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

It's raining cats and dogs out there!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

"If you think I'm going to tell the scary upstairs neighbor that his music is too loud, you're nuts!"

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Please pick up your art supplies and put them away.

• Literal

• Nonliteral

There was a little bird sitting outside my window chirping and whistling all day long. It drove me up the wall!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

When I got home from school, I was hungry enough to eat a horse!

• Literal
• Nonliteral

If I live to be one thousand years old, I will never understand the paintings in this museum.

• Nonliteral Meaning

• Literal Meaning

That girl is as skinny as a twig!

• Literal 
• Nonliteral

Determine whether the expression below is meant to be figurative or literal.

"My brother says that I will not pass math until pigs fly."

• Figurative

• Literal