Excerpt from Idiomatic Key to the French Language: Illustrated With Copious and Practical Conversational Examples of All the Leading Idioms, With the Corresponding English Version

Those who have learned French theoretically, through the usual Grammar systems, find themselves very much at a loss, when reading or attempting to converse, to understand the many idioms used in familiar intercourse, since idioms, being that part of the language which cannot be governed by grammatical rules, nor classified under them, are almost entirely omitted.

Of course, the attempt to translate idioms literally, by the help of the dictionary, would only result in meaningless non sense, as they can only be rendered by an equivalent idio matic version, which will give sense for sense.

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