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An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein , 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").
"Adult children have adult problems," Dr. Latimer says. " Most of the time, when a person comes to you, they just want to be heard." So, once you utter this four-word sentence, give your adult ...
Children playing Simon Says with "Simon" (the controller) in the foreground. Simon Says is a children's game for three or more players. One player takes the role of "Simon" and issues instructions (usually physical actions such as "jump in the air" or "stick out your tongue") to the other players, which should be followed only when succeeding the phrase "Simon says".
50. “A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.” – Jacob Abbott 51. “To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who ...
Speech may nevertheless express emotions or desires; people talk to themselves sometimes in acts that are a development of what some psychologists (e.g., Lev Vygotsky) have maintained is the use of silent speech in an interior monologue to vivify and organize cognition, sometimes in the momentary adoption of a dual persona as self addressing ...
Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal when her chapter book was published in 1952, and it remains a favorite of kids around the world today. This is the first title in a four-book series. Ages 8-12
In "Hansel and Gretel," Hansel speaks more often and for longer than his sister, and the first phrase he utters to her happens to be, "Quiet, Gretel." This explicit shushing is a common thread throughout the Grimms' take on folklore; spells of silence are cast on women more than they are on men, and the characters most valued by male suitors ...