Your friend Makoto is living with you while he learns English. One day he comes home very confused and tells you, “I was watching the news, and they said that everyone has a few skeletons in their closet! Do you really keep your dead in your closets?” Identify and explain the type of language that Makoto has heard.
What will be an ideal response?
Makoto has encountered an idiom. An idiom is a word or phrase that is not semantically transparent. In this case, the phrase “a skeleton in the closet” refers to an unsavory secret. It would be particularly difficult to understand as a nonnative speaker of English.
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