1. Idioms
By Michaela Goff, Hannah Hedegard, Anna Kenolty, Stacey Oware and Dominic Petschak

2. Are these idioms?
Give the game away
YES

3. A black look
YES

4. Like a duck to water NO

5. To hit the ground running
YES

6. A little something somethingNO

7. The bees-knees
YES

8. By and large
YES

9. Black sheep
YES

10. A little you-know-what

11. Point of no return
YES

12. The definition:
An expression which functions as a single unit and whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, such as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language.

13. Properties Of An Idiom
1) Conventionality

14. Properties Of An Idiom
2) Inflexibility

15. Properties Of An Idiom
3) Figuration

16. Properties Of An Idiom
4) Proverbiality

17. Properties Of An Idiom
5) Informality

18. Properties Of An Idiom
6) Affect

19. The Syntax-Lexicon Continuum
Kick
the
football
IDIOMS
Lexicon
Function (words)
The
These
This A
Content (words)
Chair
Believe
Interesting

20. Idioms In Different Languages
It’s raining cats and dogs, the English idiom
It’s raining rope/pieces of string or it’s raining like a cow pissing
It’s raining old women with harrows on their backs
It’s raining pocket knives or it’s raining ‘pitcher-wise’
It’s raining a chair leg

21. Idioms In Different Languages
The English phrase “To kick the bucket”
To stretch the paw
To kick the calendar
To lay the piece of lead

22. To conclude… By and large Kingdom come The linguistic anomaly
The Great Mystery of Language

23. The future of idioms…?