A phrase is a group of words that form a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
Phrases in Chinese language oftentimes are idiomatic by nature.
In linguistics, idiomaticity is defined as the following:
Use of segmentally complex expressions whose semantic structure is not deducible jointly from their syntactic structure and the semantic structure of their components. -- Weinreich (1972:89)
See also: idioms
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