"you have your head in the clouds" and "it's raining cats and dogs"
Amy uses imagery to show her feelings because her family is embarrassing her in front of someone she likes. She describes how they are doing it, as imagery.
He inclinations the American individuals to maintain a strategic distance from long-term inviting relations or competitions with any country, contending that connections with or enmity toward other countries will as it were cloud the government's judgment in its outside policy.