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Old 16-Aug-2007, 13:39
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Default Re: difference between Idiom and Idiomatic expression

Phrasal verbs, for instance, are regarded as idiomatic because the meaning cannot be worked out from the definitions of the individual words, but are rarely called full idioms.
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