Idioms


The language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class


Idiom:
lay off (workers/staff) or lay (workers/staff) off

Meaning:
to reduce the number of workers

Example:
Six hundred workers at the automobile factory were recently laid off.


List of common idioms, their meanings and examples of their usage in sentences
An idiom is defined as - a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words.
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