Phraseology is the
study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and other
types of multi-word lexical units (often collectively referred to as
phrasemes), in which the component parts of the expression take on a meaning
more specific than or otherwise not predictable from the sum of their meanings
when used independently. For example, ‘Dutch auction’ is composed of the words
Dutch ‘of or pertaining to the Netherlands’ and auction ‘a public sale in which
goods are sold to the highest bidder’, but its meaning is not ‘a sale in the
Netherlands where goods are sold to the highest bidder’. Instead, the phrase
has a conventionalized meaning referring to any auction where, instead of
rising, the prices fall.
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