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- English-language_idioms abstract "An idiom is a common word or phrase with a culturally understood meaning that differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest. For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase \"kick the bucket\" to mean \"to die\" – and also to actually kick a bucket. Furthermore, they would understand when each meaning is being used in context. An idiom is not to be confused with other figures of speech such as a metaphor, which invokes an image by use of implicit comparisons (e.g., \"the man of steel\" ); a simile, which invokes an image by use of explicit comparisons (e.g., \"faster than a speeding bullet\"); and hyperbole, which exaggerates an image beyond truthfulness (e.g., like \"missed by a mile\" ). Idioms are also not to be confused with proverbs, which are simple sayings that express a truth based on common sense or practical experience.An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. In another definition, an idiom is a speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. In idioms, usually English learners would have a hard time understanding the real meaning if they did not have an English idioms dictionary. English has thousands of idioms. Most of English idioms are informal.Visit Wiktionary's Category for over eight thousand idioms.".
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Actions_speak_louder_than_words.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Bite_the_bullet.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Break_a_leg.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Category:English-language_idioms.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_grammar.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lists_of_English_phrases.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Chink_in_ones_armor.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Cliché.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Dance.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Denotation.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Euphemism.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Fart.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Figure_of_speech.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Hyperbole.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Idiom.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Informant.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Kick_the_bucket.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Letting_the_cat_out_of_the_bag.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink List_of_English-language_idioms_of_the_19th_century.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Metaphor.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Proverb.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Siamese_twins_(linguistics).
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Simile.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Theatre.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:_pop_ones_clogs.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:_pull_somebodys_leg.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:_raining_cats_and_dogs.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:_spill_the_beans.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:all_thumbs.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:barking_up_the_wrong_tree.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:beat_around_the_bush.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:bed_of_roses.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:champ_at_the_bit.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:chew_the_fat.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:clam_up.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:cold_shoulder.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:couch_potato.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:drop_a_dime.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:elephant_in_the_room.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:fit_as_a_fiddle.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:for_a_song.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:grasp_the_nettle.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:have_a_cow.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:have_eyes_in_the_back_of_ones_head.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:like_shooting_fish_in_a_barrel.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:shoot_the_breeze.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:sleep_with_the_fishes.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:steal_someones_thunder.
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- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:thumb_ones_nose.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:tie_one_on.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:trip_the_light_fantastic.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:under_the_weather.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:wild_goose_chase.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:you_can_say_that_again.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLink Wiktionary:Appendix:English_idioms.
- English-language_idioms wikiPageWikiLinkText "English-language idioms".