An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words, which can make idioms hard for students and learners to understand. The idioms are set phrases and short sentences made up of two or more words; it functions as a unit of meaning which cannot be predicted from its literal meaning of ponent words.
The Range of English idioms
The English idiom is the best part of the English vocabulary. Idiom is an extremely important language phenomenon. No beautiful language in the world doesn’t have its colorful and meaningful idioms. There have a great number of English idioms, which mainly have the allusions from three great resources, the Bible and Roman fables and the works of Shakespeare. There are also some English e from is the historic events in Europe. The English Idioms may include colloquialisms, catchphrase, slang expressions, proverbs, etc .
colloquialisms
hit below the belt \ stab in the back 暗箭伤人
cut the ground from under sb. 在某人背后搞鬼
slang expressions
screw up一塌胡涂
Proverb
It's no use crying over spilt milk. / Cry over spilt milk. 覆水难收
The development of idioms
With the development of people’s social and living circumstances, idioms have also changed since the time that people started municate in language. Some old idioms out-of-date may have been abandoned or modified by people,
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