What do idioms really mean?*1

• 1 August 1992
• journal article
• Published by Elsevier in Journal of Memory and Language
• Vol. 31  (4) , 485-506
• https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-596x(92)90025-s

Abstract

Keywords

• METAPHORS
• LITERAL
• DEAD
• PARAPHRASES
• MOTIVATED
• FIGURATIVE
• IDIOMATIC
• SUGGESTS THAT IDIOMS