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2. 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").

3. 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).

4. 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 ...

5. Spanish proverbs - Wikipedia

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   Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Ancient Babylon and that have been transmitted culturally to Spain during the period of classical antiquity; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “En boca cerrada no entran moscas” (Silence is golden, literally "Flies cannot enter a closed mouth") belong to the ...

6. Idiom (language structure) - Wikipedia

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   For example, in English it is idiomatic to use an indefinite article when describing a person's occupation (I am a plumber; she is an engineer), but in Spanish and many other languages it is not (soy plomero; ella es ingeniera), and a native speaker of English learning Spanish must encounter and accept that fact to become fluent.

7. Category:Spanish-language idioms - Wikipedia

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   English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Pages in category "Spanish-language idioms" The following 2 pages are in this ...

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9. Category:Spanish words and phrases - Wikipedia

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   See as example Category:English words: Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ... Spanish-language idioms (2 P) P. Argentine ...