Rules For Idioms And Phrases

Let’s now see some examples of both the sections below:

Idioms

For example:

• Being comfortable in one’s skin –
  If you take the literal meaning it would be absurd to even explain.
  However the actual meaning here that we can extract : ‘the feeling of being comfortable with yourself’.
  One’s skin means own skin or to simplify ‘yourself’
  
  
• Beat around the bush –
  With this idiom it doesn’t mean to actually take a bat and beat the bush but:
  to talk about everything around the topic and try to ignore / avoid the main topic, the person, or a particular thing.

Phrases

For Example: 

• Deep down – deeper feelings
  
• Group of men and women – group of men and group of women
• Challenge of imagination – challenging to be imaginative
• Latin and Greek –  some strange meaning