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Idioms in ELT: the icing on the cake or something to steer clear of?

There are three distinct aspects of an English idiom. They are fixed expressions with a meaning which is not always obvious. They also have quite a complex meaning which is understood by a certain group . . .

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Julie Moore
Julie Moore
Julie Moore is an ELT materials writer and lexicographer based in Bristol, UK. After teaching in Greece, Czechia and the UK, she became fascinated by vocabulary and trained to work on learner’s dictionaries. Alongside her work as an ELT lexicographer, she’s co-authored various vocabulary-focused books, including ETpedia Vocabulary (Pavilion, 2019) and Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice (OUP, 2017). She also regularly spends far too long researching vocab queries that come up on social media — Email: julie@juleswords.co.uk