Explore: Idiomatic Expressions

languages. In English alone there are an estimated twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions. Some well known idioms in English are "spill the beans" (meaning

Many speakers of English use such expressions for possibility in general, such that most instances of such expressions by those speakers are in fact pleonastic

The jugular veins (Latin: Venae iugulares) are veins that take blood from the head back to the heart via the superior vena cava. The internal jugular vein

units of measurement survived in Russian culture in a number of idiomatic expressions and proverbs, for example: Слышно за версту: (It) can be heard a

longer version "put my two cents in" is an American and Australian idiomatic expression, taken from the original English idiom "to put in my two-penny worth"

story might have developed around a range of Afrikaans idiomatic expressions. These expressions can be regarded as a reflection of the values of the source

there are the issues of contextuality, the non-compositionality of idiomatic expressions, and the non-compositionality of quotations. Discussion of compositionality

[ˈɛkstʁaˌvʊʁst] ) can be either a type of cold cut or part of a German idiomatic expression. Extrawurst is a type of Austrian cold cut made from a well-spiced

Wordsworth. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-85326-309-5. "English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions – Body idioms/Head". Learn English Today. 2015. Retrieved 14 September

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" is an idiomatic expression for an avoidable error in which something good or of value is eliminated when