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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
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- idiom ['ɪdɪəm]
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a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example (It was raining) cats and dogs
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n
linguistic usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers of a language
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n
the characteristic vocabulary or usage of a specific human group or subject
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the characteristic artistic style of an individual, school, period, etc
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[Etymology]
C16: from Latin idi
o ma peculiarity of language, from Greek; seeidio-
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1.
n
a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example (It was raining) cats and dogs
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