TECHNOLOGY OF MODERN TIMES AS A SOURCE OF THE “LEXICON OF COMMON FIGURATIVE UNITS”
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The topic of this paper is widespread idioms (WIs) originating from the domain ‘modern technology’. These idioms are only a small
part of the entire “Lexicon of Common Figurative Units” (i.e. the inventory of idioms which exist in a large number of European languages in a similar lexical structure and in the same figurative core meaning). The six idioms discussed here belong to one of the most recent layers of the common European figurative language.
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