idiom
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈɪdiəm/
:
modismo
- Learning new idioms can help you understand the language better.
- the meaning of idioms
- familiarity with idioms
- figurative idioms
These damn English idioms always throw me off.
- These damn English idioms always throw me off.
- The classic idiom of hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
- So I tend to think that he's a dude and he's he's smart if he's a bookworm by I mean the idiom means that the guy's whoever's a bookworm is like really smart.
Examples
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When someone says "spill the beans," they are using an idiom that means to reveal a secret.
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The rank orders of the 20 overall most familiar idioms were compared among the three states.
Academic text (1992) -
Have you ever considered the idiom, "Have your cake and eat it too"?
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What is the origin of the idiom face melting?
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The classic idiom of hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
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So kick the buckets and buy the farm are both idioms that mean die.
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Expanding the repertoire of school music to include popular idioms is certainly important.
Academic text (2013) -
As a result, their writing lacked the structure, grammar, and idioms most native speakers use automatically.
Academic text (1996) -
Attend mindfully to come back to your senses, an idiom that often means become wise and discerning.
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In Pss. 38:9 and 42:11, "bones you crushed" is used as an idiom expressing the effects of grief or conscience.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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6.0
A phrase whose meaning is not the same as its words
A fixed group of words that mean something different from the words alone
A group of words that together mean something different from each word alone
Compounds
- Archaic
An international language made to help people from different countries talk
- Specialized
A group of words that together mean something different from each word alone
How Figurative
7
4.2
37
3.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Idiom comes from the Greek root idios meaning 'own' and the Latin idioma meaning 'a special way of speaking', and the same idio- idea appears in English words like idiot (which once meant a private person). So an idiom is a fixed group of words that has a meaning 'own' to the language and not clear from the single words alone.