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idiomatic phrase

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idiomatic
adjective
uk /ˌɪd.i.əˈmæt.ɪk/ us /ˌɪd.i.əˈmæt̬.ɪk/
containing or consisting of ...
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phrase
noun[C]
uk /freɪz/ us /freɪz/
language
a group of words that is part of, rather than the whole of, ...
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Examples of idiomatic phrase


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Language learning for visual targets related to literal meanings of idiom constituent words than for targets related figuratively to the metaphoric interpretation of the idiomaticphrase.
Sometimes it is difficult to draw a distinction between idiomaticphrase and proverbial expression.
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English translations of "yojijukugo" include four-character compound, four-character idiom, four-character idiomaticphrase, and four-character idiomatic compound.
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Playing possum is an idiomaticphrase which means pretending to be dead.
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Although proverb and saying are practically synonymous, the same can not be said about idiomaticphrase and four-character idiom.
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Since the 1940s the term has been used as a slang idiomaticphrase describing contests that are futile or purposeless, especially if waged in a conspicuously aggressive manner.
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Another similar construction is an idiomaticphrase.
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The article reports problems with locating compound nouns, idiomatic phrases and the citation for m of past participles.
Lexicalization rules identify elements that must cohere in the speech: words, word fragments, and idiomatic phrases such as by the way.
The difference is that an idiomaticphrase involves figurative language in its components, while in a proverbial phrase the figurative meaning is the extension of its literal meaning.
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The corner will occasionally throw in a white towel to signify a boxer's surrender (the idiomatic phrase to throw in the towel, meaning to give up, derives from this practice).
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This idiomaticphrase is applicable when a subject is emotionally charged; and the people who might have spoken up decide that it is probably best avoided.
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What idiomatic phrases are there?
The entirely new and often disconcerting experience of a totally alien physical and cultural environment produced a new set of lexical items, both single lexemes and idiomatic phrases.
The definition may also be extended to idiomatic phrases that behave as a unit with the same function, "eg" as well as, provided that.
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Ifrah supports his thesis by quoting idiomatic phrases from languages across the entire world.
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Other sources of difference are slang or vulgar terms (where frequent new coinage occurs) and idiomatic phrases, including phrasal verbs.
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The sixth edition contains about 69,000 entries including characters, words and expressions, idiomatic phrases and idioms.
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They express themselves in brief idiomatic phrases, and the language has neither singular nor plural.
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