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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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what are the main and clear differences between idioms and phrases?
  

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com/idiom A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. phrase A sequence of words intended to have meaning. Broadly speaking, every idiom can be considered a phrase, but not every phrase has to be an idiom.

  • com/idiom A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements.
  • phrase A sequence of words intended to have meaning.
  • Broadly speaking, every idiom can be considered a phrase, but not every phrase has to be an idiom.
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/idiom
A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements.

phrase
A sequence of

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