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phraseologism

noun

Etymology

From phraseology + -ism. Compare German Phraseologismus, Russian фразеологи́зм (frazeologízm).

  1. derived from φράσις
  2. formed as phraseologism — “phraseology + -ism”

Definitions

  1. A fixed expression within a language, regarded as a phraseological unit.

    • It would be utter nonsense – as has been claimed at times – that^([sic]) phraseologisms in discourse are absolutely fixed. Nothing is further from the truth, as a large percentage of contextualised references show.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phraseologism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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