By Danielle Gerber, Multilingual Proofreader for The Geo Group Corporation.
An idiom is a phrase in which the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. In other words, idioms are expressions that cannot be understood literally. Idiomatic phrases are often difficult for non-English speakers to understand and can easily lose their meaning in translation, especially when translated by a non-native speaker, or if the country doesn’t have a comparable expression.
