An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole
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Idiom poem
by John Randal
'You can't cry over spilled milk! '
my mother always said.
'Life's not a piece of cake! '
she hammered in my head.
'That's the way it goes,
' that's the way the cookie crumbles'
My mother saved her idioms
for all my idiotic troubles.
Idiom lesson resources
A poem using idiom.
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by John Randal
'You can't cry over spilled milk! '
my mother always said.
'Life's not a piece of cake! '
she hammered in my head.
'That's the way it goes,
' that's the way the cookie crumbles'
My mother saved her idioms
for all my idiotic troubles.
Idiom lesson resources
A poem using idiom.
Popular idioms