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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Idioms, French and English
For a nation so highly cultivated as the French, and possessed of knowledge so extensive, as well as diversi fied, the language is far from being copious. Hence many a single word is used under various acceptations, and several terms are very ofm.' employed to express a single idea.
Every meaning of a single word,ithat is peculiar to any tongue, may be called an idiomatic usage, but a combination of terms, constantly conveying the same import, constitutes what is commonly meant by idiom. Those combinations, however, which writers, make use of to give agreeable turns to phrases, are not idioms.
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