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.