The meaning of an idiom can not always be derived from the conjoined meaning of its elements. (
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- The meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meaning of its parts.
- Which of the following statements is correct about idioms? A: The meaning of idioms is the sum of the meaning of its components. B: The meaning of idioms can be predicted from the meaning of its parts. C: Kids do not have learn the meaning of idioms. D: The meaning of idioms is fixed and has to be learned.
- Diachronic study of word meanings is concerned with how a word develops its ______ meaning from its _____ meaning. ( ) A: primary; derived B: derived; primary C: central; secondary D: secondary; central
- An idiom is a phrase or expression where the words together have a meaning that is ______ from the meaning of the individual words as defined in dictionaries.
- ( ) The primary meaning of a word is always its central meaning.