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  2. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Category:English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball; Bed of roses; Belling the Cat; Best friends forever; Between Scylla and Charybdis; Bill matter; Birds of a feather flock together; Black sheep; Blessing in disguise; Blood, toil, tears and sweat; Born in the purple; The Boy Who Cried Wolf; Bread and butter (superstition) Break a leg ...

  4. Category:Idioms - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Idioms from non-English cultures (4 C, 8 P) L. ... Pages in category "Idioms" The following 25 pages are in this category, out ...

  5. Idiom - Wikipedia

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    Idioms occur frequently in all languages; in English alone there are an estimated twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions. [2] Some well known idioms in English are spill the beans (meaning "reveal secret information"), it's raining cats and dogs (meaning "it's raining intensely"), and break a leg (meaning "good luck").

  6. Category:American English idioms - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "American English idioms" The following 39 pages are in this category, out ...

  7. Idiom dictionary - Wikipedia

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    An idiom dictionary may be a traditional book or expressed in another medium such as a database within software for machine translation.Examples of the genre include Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which explains traditional allusions and proverbs, and Fowler's Modern English Usage, which was conceived as an idiom dictionary following the completion of the Concise Oxford English ...

  8. Category:British English idioms - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; Help. Pages in category "British English idioms" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may ...

  9. Phraseology - Wikipedia

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    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.