Idioms By Michaela Goff, Hannah Hedegard, Anna Kenolty, Stacey Oware and Dominic Petschak

Are these idioms? Give the game away YES

A black look YES

Like a duck to water NO

To hit the ground running YES

A little something something NO

The bees-knees YES

By and large YES

Black sheep YES

A little you-know-what

Point of no return YES

The definition: An expression which functions as a single unit and whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, such as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language.

Properties Of An Idiom 1) Conventionality

Properties Of An Idiom 2) Inflexibility

Properties Of An Idiom 3) Figuration

Properties Of An Idiom 4) Proverbiality

Properties Of An Idiom 5) Informality

Properties Of An Idiom 6) Affect

The Syntax-Lexicon Continuum Kick the football IDIOMS Lexicon Function (words) The These This A Content (words) Chair Believe Interesting

Idioms In Different Languages It’s raining cats and dogs, the English idiom It’s raining rope/pieces of string or it’s raining like a cow pissing It’s raining old women with harrows on their backs It’s raining pocket knives or it’s raining ‘pitcher-wise’ It’s raining a chair leg

Idioms In Different Languages The English phrase “To kick the bucket” To stretch the paw To kick the calendar To lay the piece of lead

To conclude… By and large Kingdom come The linguistic anomaly The Great Mystery of Language

The future of idioms…?