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Keywords:  peculiar, pertaining, conforming, speaker, language
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Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase.
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Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of an idiom{3}; having a meaning that is peculiar to itself and not predictable from general rules.
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Mother-tongue competence, whether or not it is the speaker's first language.
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Keywords:  spoken, commonly
as commonly spoken
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Keywords:  goats, doesn't, anything, sum, getting
Having a meaning that's different from the sum of the parts; "getting someone's goat" doesn't usually have anything to do with goats.
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