1) Accepted phrase 2) Accepted solecism 3) Apple of my eye 4) Area dialect 5) Argot 6) Bad apple or big cheese 7) Barking up the wrong tree 8) Beat a dead horse 9) Beat around the bush 10) Bit of dialect 11) Bit of local lingo 12) Bite the bullet 13) Bite the dust 14) Burn the midnight oil 15) By hook or by crook
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1) Argot 2) Baroqueness 3) Classicism 4) Classicistic 5) Dialect 6) Expression 7) Fixed expression 8) Jargon 9) Language 10) Neoclassicism 11) Neoclassicist 12) Neo classicistic 13) Parlance 14) Phrase 15) Romantic 16) Romanticist 17) Romanticistic 18) Ruralism 19) Rusticism 20) Tongue 21) Vernacular
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An idiom (idioma, `special property`, f. ἰδίωμα – idiōma, `special feature, special phrasing`, f. ἴδιος – idios, `one’s own`) is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom`s figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur...
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[structural nature of language] Idiom in the noncount sense of the word is `the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language`. It is the realized structural nature of a language, in contrast with all other possible but unrealized structural forms that could have developed to serve the same semantic purpose but did not...
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• (n.) Dialect; a variant form of a language. • (n.) An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular auth...
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1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. 'Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general rules of construction which characterise the syntax of a particular language and distinguish it from o...
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In its loosest sense, the word idiom is often used as a synonym for dialect or idiolect. In its more
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a sequence of words which functions semantically as a unit and with an unpredictable meaning (e.g. kick the bucket, meaning die). This is generally accompanied by a degree of syntactic restriction.
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Id'i·om (ĭd'ĭ*ŭm)
noun [ French
idiome , Latin
idioma , from Greek
'idi`wma , from
'idioy^n to make a person's own, to make proper or peculiar; from
'i`dios one's own, proper, peculiar; probably akin to the reflexive pronoun
o'y...
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(Idiomatic language (idiom / idiomatic phrase)) Idiomatic language refers to many words or phrases that are a familiar and everyday feature of our language. Idioms are a part of the comfortable, conversational style of language we use daily - but to a foreigner, idioms are difficult to understand because their meaning is very different from the lit...
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A special way of expressing an idea, characteristic of the language at that particular time.
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idiom 1. The way of using a particular language that comes naturally to its native speakers and involves both knowledge of its grammar and familiarity with its usage. 2. The style of expression of a specific individual or group. 3. The characteristic style of an artist or artistic group. 4. A fixed, distinctive, and often colorful expression whose...
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A group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words
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An idiom is a phrase that conveys a figurative meaning different from the words used. In this sense, idiom is pretty much synonymous with “figure of speech,” though with a slightly narrower definition: an idiom is part of the language.
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a phrase or expression producing meaning beyond the sum of the words.
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a sequence of words which forms a whole unit of meaning
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An idiom is an expression which is not meant literally and whose meaning cannot be deduced from knowledge of the individual words. For example: You look a bit under the weather this morning. Are you all right? Try and keep to the point of the discussion. You're always introducing red herrings. You and I have the same problems - we're in the same b...
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phrasal idiom noun an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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Group of words with a meaning of its own that is different from the meanings of each individual word in the group (for example, `It's raining cats and dogs` means `It's raining heavily` and kick the bucket means `to die`); also a style of expression in writing, speech, or music that is ty...
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an expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of the individual words
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an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics. · a language, dialect, or style ...
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A set of words which always co-occur and where the meaning is not necessarily derived by concatenating the individual parts of the idiom, e.g to take coals to Newcastle 'to do something entirely superfluous'.
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[SAT terms] expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
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[6th grade words] expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
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