Idiom Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com › browse › idiomJul 31, 2020 · idiom / ( ˈɪdɪəm) / noun a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example (It was raining) cats and dogs linguistic usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers of a language the characteristic vocabulary or usage of a specific human group or subject
Idiom - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdiomAn idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase. Some phrases which become figurative idioms, however, do retain the phrase's literal meaning. Categorized as formulaic language, an idiom's figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. Idioms occur frequently in all languages; in English alone there are an estimated twenty-five million idiomatic expressions.