Literalization Images & Prompts | Idiom Literalization

Eye Candy Sweet on Pastel Ground

Banana Split Gymnastics

Holy Guacamole Halo Bowl

Sweet Tooth Molar Confection

Breadwinner Loaf on the Victory Podium

French Toast Toasting in Paris

Piece of Cake Jigsaw Slices

Tough Cookie with Boxing Gloves

Angel Food Cake with Wings and Halo

Deviled Eggs with Pepper Horns

Eggs Growing on an Eggplant Plant

Firefly — carries a lantern abdomen at dusk

Smart Cookie Solving a Tangram Puzzle

Seahorse — miniature horse swims with fin-like paddles

Jam Session: Jam Jars Playing Jazz on Wooden Stage

Bookworm — green caterpillar reads in the book gutter

Needle in a haystack — sewing needle embedded in a haystack

Riverbank — with vault door in earthen face

Steel wool — sheep fleeced in coiled steel wool

Brainstorm — glass brain holding a storm inside

Pulling strings — large hand pulling strings of tiny managers

All ears — clay listener built from oversized ears

Cold feet — frozen feet inside white wedding shoes

Concrete jungle — concrete trees growing into city towers

Ballpoint pen — writing with soccer ball

Cutting corners — tabletop with its four corners cut off

Walking on air — man walking on air above a sidewalk

Silver lining — storm cloud opening to a silver lining

Frog in your throat — glass singer with a frog in its throat

Elephant in the room — elephant ignored in a conference room

Thought bubble — soap bubble holding a tiny study room

Sitting on the fence — person sitting balanced on a garden fence

Bending over backward — mannequin bending backward to hold an umbrella

Missing the boat — traveler reaching after a departing boat

Swordfish — fish with a sword blade for a snout

Sawfish — fish with a handsaw blade for a body

Concrete ideas — concrete thought bubbles rising from a head

Frozen assets — gold bullion frozen inside an open safe

Liquid assets — gold coins melting into a liquid pool

Golden handshake — gold hands clasping over falling coins

Food for thought — brain-shaped bread sandwich with fillings

Train of thought — miniature train emerging from a ceramic head

Putting the cart before the horse — wooden cart standing before the horse

Deadline — worker running toward a barrier of clocks

Walking on eggshells — tiptoeing across a floor of eggshells

Hammerhead — shark with a claw hammer for a head

Writer's block — writer blocked by a huge stone cube

Storm in a teacup — miniature storm contained inside a teacup

A square peg in a round hole — square wooden peg jammed in a round hole

Butterflies in your stomach — porcelain performer with butterflies inside

Cold shoulder — person turning away with an icy shoulder

Chain of thought — chain of speech-bubble links from a head

Breaking the mold — glazed ceramic bird leaving its broken mold

Under the weather — tired person under a personal rain cloud

Fish out of water — goldfish in an office chair out of water

Break the ice — handshake through a freshly broken ice pane

Iron curtain — rusted iron theatre curtain in deep folds

Brain freeze — brain-shaped ice pop coated in frost

Thinking outside the box — person building outside an open box

Painting the town red — paintbrush coating a miniature town red

Raining cats and dogs — plush cats and dogs raining from a cloud

Time is money — clock sliced into a roll of gold coins

When pigs fly — pink pig flying on feathered wings

Spill the beans — speech bubble spilling beans at a cafe

Tying the knot — wooden wedding figures tightening a rope knot

Burning the candle at both ends — long candle burning at both ends

Up the creek without a paddle — canoeist stranded without a paddle in a creek

Going the extra mile — runner unrolling extra asphalt onto the road

Barking up the wrong tree — beagle barking at an empty tree

Skeleton in the closet — skeleton hiding inside a wooden wardrobe

Between a rock and a hard place — person wedged between a boulder and a wall

Jumping on the bandwagon — leaping onto a wagon of musicians

Head in the clouds — office worker with head inside a small cloud

Let the cat out of the bag — cat stepping halfway out of a bag

Apple of my eye — red apple reflected in a human pupil

All your eggs in one basket — overfilled egg basket beside empty baskets