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It's So Clichéd
"She sat down to write her paper without batting an eyelash." This sentence contains an example of what is called an idiom. Idioms are individual forms of expression specific to one language. They can be thought of as a group of two or more words that together mean something different from the literal meaning of the individual words. "Without batting an eyelash" means to be passive, or show no interest in an event or situation. This phrase first appeared in the early 1900's."Batting", used in this phrase, was intended to mean "blinking". If a person is so cool and calm that they do not even blink when confronted with something unusual, they there is no outward show of emotion. "Without batting an eyelash" is just one of about ten thousand idiomatic expressions!
Idioms are said to appear in every language. Some of ours have even originated elsewhere. Our English idioms can be quite confusing to a foreigner since the meaning of them, as previously noted, may have......

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