Idiomatic expression

Synonyms for "idiomatic expression" (20 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
idiomset phrasecolloquialcolloquial expression

Strong matches (6)

Noun(6 words)
conventionalcultural expressionepochal shiftfigurativefigurative expressionfigure of speech

Related words (10)

Noun(10 words)
fixed expressionfluency-basedfolk sayinginformal idiomlexical chunknative-likenaturalnonliteralphrasal idiomphrase

Related word relations

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More general

6 entries
expressionlinguistic featurelocutionphrasesayingspeech style

More specific

10 entries
catchphrasecollocationcolloquial usagefolk sayingidiominformal phrasinglexical unitproverbset phraseslang expression

Collocations

9 entries
colloquial expressioncommon idiomcultural expressionfigurative expressionfigurative languageidiomatic languageidiomatic phrasenonliteral meaningset phrase

Inflections

3 entries
idiomatic expressionsmore idiomaticmost idiomatic

Derivations

3 entries