What does the idiom in this text suggest?
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand.
—Keane, "Somewhere Only We Know"
The singer is in a strange and frightening place. The singer has walked the path many times before.
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 like the back of my hand suggests that the singer has walked the path many times before. To know something like the back of your hand is to know it very well.