We often come across idioms and phrases in the English language..an idiom is a phrase whose meaning is different than the words contained in it..that is an idiom has a figurative meaning and not literal..whereas a phrase can have a literal or a figurative meaning... An idiom is a phrase and its meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use - for example, the common expressions: "turn over a new leaf" and "fancy seeing you here." A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. For example: the house at the end of the street. To sum up an idiom is always a phrase, but a phrase is not always an idiom.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:33:51 +0000
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