IDIOMS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

What’s an idiom?

Idioms are phrases or expressions that are part of a language and whose meaning can’t be predicted easily from the meaning and denotation of its individual parts. These expressions are deeply intertwined with the culture of the speaker, and their meanings aren’t literal but instead are more figurative. For example, a common idiom in English is the expression “a piece of cake”. For a person who is just learning the language, this expression could mean exactly what it says: a piece of one of the most common desserts, a cake. However, for a native English speaker, the meaning is quite different. “A piece of cake” is used to refer to a task that can be accomplished easily, like in the sentence “Taking out the garbage is a piece of cake.”, which states that taking out the garbage is very easy.