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Idiom
An idiom ((ラテン語:idioma), "special property", from , "special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity", f. , "one’s own") is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. An idiom's figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning.〔See The Oxford companion to the English language (1992:495f.).〕 There are thousands of idioms, and they occur frequently in all languages. It is estimated that there are at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.〔Concerning the estimate of the number of idioms in the English language, see Jackendoff (1997).〕 Idioms fall into the category of formulaic language. ==Examples== The following sentences contain idioms. The fixed words constituting the idiom in each case are bolded:〔Examples of idioms like the ones given here can be found in most any syntax or grammar book, or dictionary of linguistic terminology, e.g. Crystal (1997:189), Radford (2004:187f.), Jurafsky and Martin (2000:597f.).〕
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