IDIOMS WITH PROPER NOUNS IN THE FUNCTION OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS.

Authors

  • Muydinova Nigora Usmonjonovna Academic lyceum number 2 at FSTU, English teacher Author

Keywords:

Among these, idioms incorporating proper nouns—names of people, places, mythological figures, or historical events—form a distinctive subset of phraseological units in English

Abstract

Idioms are vibrant, fixed expressions in language that carry meanings beyond their literal components, often reflecting the cultural, historical, or social contexts of the communities that use them. 

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References

Ammer, C. (2013). The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Crystal, D. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Wiley-Blackwell.

Gibbs, R. W. (1994). The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. Cambridge University Press.

Moon, R. (1998). Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach. Oxford University Press.

Speake, J. (Ed.). (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. Oxford University Press.

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Published

2025-09-01