Lesson: English Grammar - 24

Idioms In Expressions

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Here are some examples of idioms in expressions:

  • You drive a hard bargain.
  • She's under the weather.
  • Jacob is out of his mind with fear.

In each of the examples, the words when considered individually don't make a lot of sense with the others that surround them. One drives a car, not a bargain, and yet we understand the sentence "You drive a hard bargain" because we don't just focus on each individual word. The sentence's meaning becomes clear when its words are read together as a unit. That suddenly comprehensible unit is called an idiom. Similarly, it makes no sense to be "under the weather"; the weather doesn't cut off at some physical point that you can stand under. Nor is there any reason why this phrase would describe an illness, but it does, and we know it does, because we're familiar with the idiom.

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