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which figurative language is this
"their hearts dropped like rocks, and they knew they were in a pickle"

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crackedmoonlight
The first part is a simile because the word "like" is used, but then idiom and metaphor is in the second half because "in a pickle" is commonly used phrase meaning "in trouble" which is an idiom. But a metaphor is when you say anything that isn't literal- like being in a pickle.
sdmatera
This uses both an idiom and a simile

Idiom: being in a pickle is generally known to mean that someone is in trouble

Simile: their hearts were compared to rocks using the work like

Hope this helps

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