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IDIOM - an expression in the usage of a language rhar is peculiar ro itself either grammatically or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements.
In other words, it's American Slang which you may not always get. In fact, idioms can make you totally lost in conversations! We Americans seem to roll them off our tongues very easily and we are so busy gabbing that we really are clueless when we even use them!
Learning grammar and writing isn't enough to master the English language.You must understand common English idioms if you want to score well on the CAE examination.
More often than not, for example , the answer to one of your reading test question could lie behind an idiom that you are not familiar with.The same applies to the listening test, you might understand most of what is being said only to get lost after hearing the obligatory idiom.
This book contains 50 of the most common idioms that usually turn up in CAE examinations.
![Idioms with a national twist [infographic]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2015-05/2015051119390847175.jpg "Idioms with a national twist [infographic]")
