Define idioms What is the meaning of the idiom "no dice"? What does the idiom "foam at the mouth" mean? What does the idiom "pick someone's brain" mean? What is the meaning of the idiom 'on cloud 9'? What does the idiom "with a grain of salt" mean?
The central notion of this theory is the notion of the image component of themeaning of conventional figurative units. We define theimage componentasa specific conceptual structure linking the lexical structure and the actualmeaning of a figurative unit. The image component is an important element of...