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DictionaryRoot: idiōma
Greek

idiōma

peculiarity; peculiar phraseology

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Two friends hear the short essential idiom 'break the ice' shown only in one small speech bubble; a small fanciful ice-block thought image contrasts their actual warm social greeting.
noun

idiom

ID-ee-um/ˈɪdiəm/

A phrase whose meaning cannot be predicted from its individual words.

Etymology
idiomGreekpeculiarity; peculiar phraseology

A peculiarity of speech became an expression characteristic of a language. The selected sense focuses on expressions whose established meaning cannot be worked out simply from their individual words.

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