Entry Word: phrase

Function: noun

Meaning: a sequence of words having a specific meaning <draw a literal representation of the phrase “to rain cats and dogs”>

Synonyms expression, idiom

Related Words cliché; locution, term; epithet, expletive, name; byword, cry, motto, shibboleth, slogan, watchword; archaism, colloquialism, euphemism, modernism, neologism, provincialism, vulgarism

Phrases figure of speech