Idioms are difficult for non natives, in particular for lower levels, although they fascinate many who want to sound more natural when speaking English. What are idioms? An idiom is a word or phrase with a figurative, rather than literal, meaning which is culturally understood though it differs from what the word's denotation seems to suggest. This means that the words making up the idiom have a different meaning from the one you would find in the dictionary when looking up t