Idioms are words, groups of words used to refer to mean something that is not deducible from the given words. It gives a metaphorical meaning of what is intended.
In the given passage from "The New Village", the idiom "took a seat" means Uncle Moti and Mina sat down at the tea shop. The phrase "took a seat" does not mean to literally carry or take a seat but it refers to sitting, the act of sitting one down.
<span>You would condition this boy by using Negative Reinforcement, which means in order to get the boy to stop running in traffic you would add a consequence every time he does it. For example every time he runs into the street make him unload the dishwasher etc.</span>
WW1 led to the collapse of the German navy. As stated in Treaty of Versailles, Germans had been stripped of their naval forces and had been blamed for causing the war. They had been made to pay for all the damages they caused. This naval mutiny combined with public unrest in late 1918 convinced civilian political leaders that the Kaiser had to abdicate the power.