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Can you please explain to be what a idioms is?

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a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
synonyms:language, mode of expression, turn of phrase, style, speech, locution, diction, usage, phraseology, phrasing, phrase, vocabulary, terminology, parlance, jargon, argot, cant, patter, tongue, vernacula
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Idioms are "a group of words used to have a meaning that cannot be expressed by individual words"

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