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The second type is represented by phraseological units in which one of the components preserves its current meaning and the other is used in a transferred meaning: to lose one’s temper, to fall ill, to fall in love, bosom friends (закадычные друзья), small talk (пустая болтовня).
The term “idiom”, both in this country and abroad, is mostly applied to phraseological units with completely transferred meanings, that is to ones in which the meaning of the whole unit does not correspond to the current meanings of the components. There are many scholars who regard idioms as the essence of phraseology and the major focus of interest in phraseology research.
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