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The Most Frequent Opaque Idioms in English News
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Hsu, Wenhua – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
This research aimed to establish a pedagogically useful list of the most frequent opaque idioms in English news. It began by compiling an idiom search list from six prestigious idiom dictionaries. Through a set of criteria, 4,864 semantically non-compositional idioms were culled as search entries to interrogate the News on the Web (NOW)…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, News Media, Language Usage, English Language Learners