What does the idiom in this text suggest?
Cell phones once cost an arm and a leg, but today the majority of people can afford them.
Cell phones were once very expensive. Cell phones once varied greatly in price.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that use language in a nonliteral or unusual way. They can make writing more expressive.
An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood literally. Its meaning must be learned.
The assignment was a piece of cake.
The text uses an idiom, an expression that cannot be understood literally.
The idiom an arm and a leg suggests that cell phones were once very expensive. A part of your body would be a high price to pay, so the idiom means that something is very expensive.