Studies in economics and education in the modern world

 
Result and Discussion
 
Reaching at the core analysis of this study, this section is dedicated to 
reveal the main and most important semantic meaning of idioms in English 
language semantic meaning of idioms is important, with a certain implication that it 
is, in many times, not possible to pick up any idiom in any situation. Therefore, 
when scanning internet in order to find some English idioms with components of 

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STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD
 
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road signs, which provides an up-to-date account of idioms, and especially most 
frequently used ones. The investigation has yielded some (Whitford, 1973) 
(Longman, 1998)idioms with meanings as shown in the following tables: 
 
English idioms 
Meaning 
1 
At the crossroads 
If you‘re at a crossroads, you are a point 
where an important decision or choice has 
to be made. 
2 
All roads lead to Rome 
an expression meaning that many 
methods will lead to the same result 
3 
Two-way street 
A situation in which both sides must put f
orth an equal amount of effort to achieve 
a desired
result. 
4 
stop [one] dead in 
[one‘s] tracks 
halt or surprise someone completely 
5 
as much as the traffic 
will bear 
The maximum 
amount that customers are willing to pay. 
6 
go play in (the) traffic 
To go away and leave one alone because 
what is being done or said is very irritatin
g. Often
used as an imperative 
7 
give way 
To succumb to something. 
8 
In a roundabout way 
When someone does not tell you in a 
straightforward or direct way or takes a 
long time to get to the point, we can say 
that they have a roundabout way of 

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