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à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
Déformation professionnelle (French: [defɔʁmasjɔ̃ pʁɔfɛsjɔnɛl], professional deformation or job conditioning) is a tendency to look at things from the point of view of one's own profession or special expertise, rather than from a broader or humane perspective.
Franglais (French: [fʁɑ̃ɡlɛ]) or Frenglish (/ ˈ f r ɛ ŋ ɡ l ɪ ʃ / FRENG-glish) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers [1] and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais). [2]
Definition Action that Put something into practice [1] Baked in Something which has been "baked in" is implied to be impossible to remove. Alternatively, "baked in" can refer to a desirable, although non-essential, property of a product being incorporated for the user's convenience. Boil the ocean Undertake an impossible or impractical task [1]
In linguistics, phraseology is the study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and other types of multi-word lexical units (often collectively referred to as phrasemes), in which the component parts of the expression take on a meaning more specific than, or otherwise not predictable from, the sum of their meanings when used independently.
An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense.Categorized as formulaic language, an idiomatic expression's meaning is different from the literal meanings of each word inside it. [1]
[1] [2] By another definition, an idiom is a speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. [3] For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase "kick the bucket" to mean "to die" – and also to actually kick a bucket ...
Expression (linguistics), a word, phrase, or sentence; Expression (mathematics), Symbolic description of a mathematical object; Fixed expression, a form of words with a specific meaning; Idiom, a type of fixed expression; Metaphorical expression, a particular word, phrase, or form of words that has a different meaning than its literal form