The quick and the dead

[bmo]

The quick and the dead, cease and desist, pros and cons, last but not least, etc., etc., is there a name for this kind of things?

Originally Posted by bmo

The quick and the dead, cease and desist, pros and cons, last but not least, etc., etc., is there a name for this kind of things?

pros and cons is an idiom as far as I know. Not too sure about the rest.

[Steven D]

Originally Posted by bmo

The quick and the dead, cease and desist, pros and cons, last but not least, etc., etc., is there a name for this kind of things?

You could call them "and expressions" "and collocations" "and idioms"

http://www.eli.ubc.ca/teachers/lesso...oms/index.html


Everyday Idioms: Pairs of words joined with 'and' (Intermediate)

http://www.eli.ubc.ca/teachers/lesso...ms/And_int.pdf

Everyday Idioms: Pairs of words joined with 'and' (Advanced)

http://www.eli.ubc.ca/teachers/lesso...ms/and_adv.pdf

[bmo]

Originally Posted by Natalie27

pros and cons is an idiom as far as I know. Not too sure about the rest.

the quick and the dead. the living and the dead.
cease and desisit. stop
last but not least. although it is the last one i am talking about, it is not the least important one.

[bmo]

thanks, you gave me a trove of information. So you just call it "expression?" There is no special grammatical term except perhaps "collocation?"

[Steven D]

Originally Posted by bmo

the quick and the dead. the living and the dead.
cease and desisit. stop
last but not least. although it is the last one i am talking about, it is not the least important one.

Well, I guess I'd call it an expression. It's not exactly an idiom because the words can be taken literally.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/defi...&dict=CALD

Definition

last but not least

importantly, despite being mentioned after everyone else:

I would like to thank my publisher, my editor and, last but not least, my husband.

[bmo]

thanks again.

[Steven D]

Originally Posted by bmo

thanks, you gave me a trove of information. So you just call it "expression?" There is no special grammatical term except perhaps "collocation?"

The University of British Columbia calls them "and idioms". I would just call them "expressions". There is no special grammatical term for this sort of thing that I know of.

I would just as soon go with "collocation". I like that, "collocation".

[Steven D]

Originally Posted by bmo

thanks again.

:D 8)