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What is an idiom?
An idiom may be defined as a word or group of words whose meaning cannot be understood from a literal interpretation of each word.
For example:
This idiom is "a piece of cake".
Excuse me?
- Is this idiom sweet like cake?
- Do we bake an idiom like a cake?
- Do we eat an idiom like cake?
No, we do not do any of these things with an idiom. We can see that a literal interpretation of each word does not give us the true meaning of this idiom.
This is a piece of cake. = This is easy.
Why are idioms important?
- English is an idiomatic language.
- The English language contains thousands of idioms.
- Native speakers of English use and understand idioms naturally and automatically.
- Students of English need to become adept with using and understanding idioms to be considered fluent in English.
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