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To know the meaning of every word and have a guess Read more conversations or literatures about it to appreciate its real meaning learn how it come into being and its back ground Use of Idioms 8 7 6 5 4 3 PICTURE START N-COUNT 习语;成语 An idiom is a group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the one they would have if you took the meaning of each word separately.? Stylistic Features How to learn an idiom Rhetorical Features Variations of Idioms The resources of the idioms are various, for example, some comes from seaman on the sea, hunters in the woods, farmers in the fields, workman at mills, housewives and cooks in the kitchen and so on. And these idioms come from their daily occupations. Although some of the expressions are colloquial, they can express things vividly and forcibly. Gradually they are widely accepted. As a result, they become part of the common core of the language and now are used in different situations. As times goes on, they developed into colloquialisms, slang and literary expressions. In addition, the same idiom may show stylistic differences when it is assigned different meanings. And there are also differences between British English and American English. We should know which is the most suitable in different situations, talking to different groups of people. It is vital to pay attention to the use of the idioms. Colloquialism Stylistic Features Slang Literary Expressions Colloquialisms take up the maximum percentage in idiom. Colloquialism is a word, phrase or paralanguage that is employed in conversational or informal language but not in formal speech or formal writing. Dictionaries often display colloquial words and phrases with the abbreviation colloq. as an identifier. Colloquialisms are sometimes referenced collectively as colloquial language. A colloquial name is a word or term used for identification that is employed in conversational or informal lang