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Lecture Eleven Idiom and Proverb What are they? sell down the river, haul over the coals, eat my hat, put his foot in his mouth, snap out of it, cut it out, P246 Rob’s always late-if he gets here on time, I’ll eat my hat. I’m sick of you two squabbling-just cut it out. Content Three Definitions of Idiom Two Requirements of Idiom Classifications of Idioms Formations of idioms Group discussion: how are idioms formed? Three definitions a group of words which has a different meaning from the sum of its parts; fixed phrases, consisting of more than one word, with meanings that canno