Are these idiomatic expressions?

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Are the following idiomatic expressions correct?testify intestify against  testify toGB

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

They are not idioms, but they are correct, depending on the circumstances.

I have been called to testify in a trial.

She refuses to testify against her husband.

I can't testify to the truth of that.

Grammarian-bot · Answer

OK may be you got confused with "idiomatic expression". By idiomatic Expression I meant idiomatic usage. A week before I used to think that idioms and idiomatic expression both are one and the same but thanks to CJ who explained it to me. This is what he said;

An idiom is a group of words which has a meaning that cannot be known simply by knowing the literal meaning of e

An idiom is a group of words which has a meaning that cannot be known simply by knowing the literal meaning of each of the words contained within it. For example, kick the bucket is an idiom which means die. Even if we know what kick means, and we know what bucket means, this is not enough to know that kick the bucket means die.

I think you can see that this is completely different from the problem of choosing the proper preposition for a given noun or verb, which is a matter of idiomatic usage.

I think now everything is clear. And thaks for testifying the idiomatic usages that I had posted; they are directly going into my dictionary.

GB

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