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idiom (noun):
1 : an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for “undecided”) or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way)
2a : 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
3 : a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : If you had never heard someone say “We’re on the same page,” would you have understood that they weren’t talking about a book? And the first time someone said he’d “ride shotgun”, did you wonder where the gun was? A modern English-speaker knows thousands of idioms, and uses many every day. Idioms can be completely ordinary (“first off”, “the other day”, “make a point of”, “What’s up?”) or more colorful (“asleep at the wheel”, “bite the bullet”, “knuckle sandwich”). A particular type of idiom, called a phrasal verb, consists of a verb followed by an adverb or preposition (or sometimes both); in make over, make out, and make up, for instance, notice how the meanings have nothing to do with the usual meanings of over, out, and up.
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