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If you understand every word in a text and still fail to grasp what the text is all about,chances are that you are having troubles with the idioms,which most Americans use especially when they converse among themselves. An idiom is the assigning of a new meaning to a group of words which already have their own meaning. If a person always uses a bookish,stilted expression and never uses an idiom in the right place,he might develop the reputation of being a dry,unimaginative speaker,or one who is trying to be too serious and too official. The use of idioms is,therefore,extremely important. It can strike a chord of solidarity with the listener. The more idioms you use in the right context,the more at ease Americans will feel with you and the more they will think to themselves this is a nice person and look at how well he expresses himself.
If you understand every word in a text and still fail to grasp what the text is all about, chances are that you are having trouble with the idioms, which most Americans use especially when they converse among themselves. An idiom is the assigning of a new meaning to a group of words which already have their own meaning. If a person always a use of bookish, stilted expression and never uses an idiom in the right place, he might develop the reputation of being a dry, unimaginative speaker, or one who is It can strike a chord of solidarity with the listener. The more idioms you use in the right context, the more at ease Americans will feel with you and the more they will think to themselves this is a nice person and look at how well he expresses himself.