An idiom (What is it?)
Definition of idiom:
1
a : the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect
b : the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language.
2
: an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (such as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as ride herd on for “supervise”).
3
: a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument the modern jazz idiom; broadly : manner, style a new culinary idiom
Oxford learner's dictionary; [countable] a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words.
Idioms Meanings
- to build castles in the air to day dream
- to give oneself air to behave in a manner intended to suggest to others
that one is superior in talent, social position
- an all rounder a person with ability to do a number of jobs satisfactorily
- the apple of one's eye a favoured person
- tied to her apron strings completely under her (mother's / wife's) control
- to receive with open arms to welcome cordially
- to take up arms to go to war
- to keep a person at arm's length to avoid being to familiar with a person
- rude awakening sudden realization of something unpleasant
- to have an axe to grind to have something to gain by an action
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