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the idiom usually carries a metaphorical sense.
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idioms have a very close meaning to that of the literal one
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the expression is separated into two parts; a part with a literal meaning, and another part with a figurative sense.
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the meaning of the idiom is never that of the sum of the literal meanings of its parts
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