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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 00:15, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The idiom “To make clean breast of ” is used to A. gain prominence B. praise oneself C. Confess without any reserve. D. destroy before it blooms

Choose the correct answer. Jayanth2642000 (talk) 01:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Can someone please meantion the relation between idiomaticity and the use of articles? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:06, 2 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The editor seems to mean definite and indefinite articles like "the" and "a". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.57.15 (talk) 11:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 00:54, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The section on dealing with non-compositionality writes about the "catena". This section was written by User:Tjo3ya. This user is the researcher who has proposed the "catena" concept. This lead to an issue of possible WP:COI / WP:ADVOCACY on the Catena (linguistics) page. The same issue appears here, and probably in many other places. Kaĉjo (talk) 08:41, 22 October 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

यह मेरा प्रश्न है मुझे समझ नहीं आ रहा है 2409:4053:799:7774:0:0:72E:38B0 (talk) 10:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ask at hi.wikipedia.org for Hindi. In English a contraction is a combination of two words while omitting some letters.PrisonerB (talk) 10:28, 26 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The following section was deleted on 2 December 2008 due to vandalism. Maybe it should be inserted again?

== Parlance ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Nickname]] -->

((wiktionarypar|Parlance))

"Idiom" can also refer to the characteristic manner of speaking in a language, also called its parlance. An utterance consistent with a language's parlance is described as '''idiomatic'''. For example, "I have hunger" is idiomatic in several European languages if translated literally (e.g. Dutch ''ik heb honger'', German ''ich habe Hunger''; French ''j'ai faim''; Spanish ''tengo hambre''; Italian ''ho fame'', Portuguese ''tenho fome''), but the usual English idiom is "I am hungry".

This sense is also carried over to [[programming language]]s, where the former sense does not apply, as an expression or statement in  contenging a programming language can generally have only one meaning. For example, in [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]], it is possible to apply a function to all members of a list using [[recursion]], but it is more idiomatic to use the [[higher-order function]] <tt>map</tt>.

— Anton Maienfeldt (talk) 10:35, 26 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Bass 41.114.255.59 (talk) 11:03, 20 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Could we have a section that enumerates things that could be confused with idioms, but really are not?

• proverbs (they're a whole sentence)
• jargon, slang (does an idiom need to be more than one word?)
• metaphors and similes
• There's a link to "figures of speech" somewhere, but that term is so vague that I don't know that it's very helpful.

Lehasa (talk) 01:06, 8 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I do not think that most English speakers would immediately recognise that as an idiom... a better sentence or phrase to illustrate the point might be in order, but I'm not sure what that would be or whether it is even actually necessary. AriTheHorse^{talk to me!} 03:54, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]