idioms, and writing them with all orthographic signs save the student much trouble in pronouncing

You ... like "robbing Peter topay Paul". An idiom or a cliche? You could say "proverbial phrases" or the like. However, the Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs includes many of these phrases ... are proverbs. I see "the

;incorrect". It's an idiom. Idioms are always clichés. Say, that must mean that idiomatic English

Help you with what? There are no idioms, so a dictionary should be sufficient. Which words do you not understand?

; are special idioms. I can't think of anything else quite like it: "Now it is" looks similar

idioms that are not "analysable"? My personal opinion: I don't think they are readily

-pickery idioms. I had in mind a market with open stalls - temporary structures in a market-place where

Wondering if this NG is the right place to ask about the origin of idioms like the military slang "screw the pooch"?

syntactic and idiomatic circumstances. The theory that all the parts of idioms are fixed seems to have

an outright alphabetized list any day. I use Windows 98, doesn't everyone? Who would use that old Windows 3.1? But, by indexing, I meant piping the directory list into a file and importing