"You're making a racket, children, settle down", groaned the teaching assistant. "But I don't know how to make a tennis racket", responded Jaxon. "I need to explain", the teaching assistant replied, "'making a racket' means being noisy. It's what's known as an idiom, where a phrase is used to to conjure up a picture describing what's happening." "Oh, I get it", said Jaxon, "so you could also have said 'you're all at full blast - calm down'". "Absolutely, Jaxon, well done, 'at full blast' is another idiom for being noisy", replied the teaching assistant, delighted to see Jaxon grasping the concept so quickly.
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