set phrase

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic.
    — Bally remarks in passing, as Hall does not, that the inversion in toujours est-il que is part of a set phrase and hence invariable.
  2. An idiomatic expression in general.
    — If it proves clearly unfeasible to make the audience laugh at a thin and far-fetched joke, it is always better to change the way the joke works . . . for instance, a pun based on the speaker's taking literally some set phrase or metaphor with a pun based on phonetic similarity.

词形变化

set phrases plural

词汇关系

近义词
fixed phrase
相关词
catchphrase cliché collocation colloquialism idiom proverb saying

词源

From set + phrase.
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