Idioms or phrasal verb

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

This exercise is from the book Reading Challenge by Casey Malarcher. Why does the book call these phrasal verbs idioms?


''Find these idioms in the reading. find out (about) [ to learn (of) ] Hey, I just found out that class is cancelled tomorrow. catch on [ to become popular ] In the 1990s, cell phones really caught on. dig in [ to begin eating with excitement ] The child was very hungry, so he dug in before his parents satdown''.

 

[Yankee]

Because many phrasal verbs can also be considered idioms and vice versa, e.g. zoom in, hold on, work out, log in, wrap up.

 

[Robbadob]

How was my comment unhelpulf but not Piscean's? Not only is it unhelpulf, but conspicuosly snide.

 

[emsr2d2]

Because Piscean's, while perhaps tinged with sarcasm, was actually a fairly reasonable suggestion. We can't possibly explain why the author chose to use that term. Your post, however, was simply snarky, sarcastic and actually quite rude to Piscean.
You're not a native speaker of English so, quite possibly, you can't yet discern the difference.

 

[Robbadob]

I took it up a notch.

 

[emsr2d2]

I took it up a notch.

And that was totally unnecessary. You are still fairly new to the forum. It would be a good idea to stick, for now, to asking questions about language and giving responses when they are helpful and correct.

I am closing this thread before anything escalates unnecessarily. The OP's question has been answered.