| 21. | Cayuco in Puerto Rico is an idiomatic expression for something that is worthless, without significance or meaningless.
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| 22. | But he argues that " bring Mary to the dance " is the idiomatic expression, regardless of direction.
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| 23. | This collocation of words redefines each component word in the word-group and becomes an " idiomatic expression ".
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| 24. | This phrase became an idiomatic expression for betrayal or selling out in Russian, similar to thirty pieces of silver.
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| 25. | Plus, Russian is especially rich in idiomatic expressions that simply do not mean what they seem to literally mean.
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| 26. | Most proponents of the principle, however, make certain exceptions for idiomatic expressions in natural language . ( Szab? 2012)
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| 27. | Idioms tend to confuse those unfamiliar with them; students of a new language must learn its idiomatic expressions as vocabulary.
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| 28. | Most younger people ( those born since the 1970s ) know little more than a few idiomatic expressions, often profanities.
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| 29. | Generally speaking, x0? is used in almost negative sentences and ? is used in strong negative sentences and idiomatic expressions.
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| 30. | This may be observed in the verb " walk " in the idiomatic expression " To walk the dog ".
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