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20 Idioms
20 Idioms
20 Idioms
This implies that ‘the meaning of the idiomatic expression cannot be deduced by looking at the meaning of
the individual words that it is made up of' (Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, David
Crystal). Another important feature to point out is that idioms are fixed, which means that people cannot
just decide to make up their own.
The following is a list of some of the most widely-used idioms in everyday English and their meanings. This
will hopefully help to illustrate Crystal's point in the previous paragraph clearly.
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