Appendix talk:English idioms

This should move to the Category:Idioms page, but let's clean it up (e.g., remove leading "a") here first.

Many entries here are not idioms
Draft dodger is not an idiom.If you can discern the meaning from the literal common definitions of the words in the phrase you don't have an idiom.


 * Right. A draft dodger is someone who tries to avoid gusts of wind.  No, wait.  It's a baseball player the Dodgers have picked (should be capitalized, though).  No, wait.  It's a photographic manipulator one could hook up to a plow ... see WT:CFI for the call on this -dmh 15:38, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

New List to be created
I am about to create a separate page per each section of this list. They will be accessible at List of idioms (*), where * represents a capital letter.

Namespace
Belongs better at Appendix:English idioms

Wiktionary:List of idioms
This (and 26 subpages) should be moved to the appropriate namespace. --Connel MacKenzie 09:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It seems like a useful TODO/Request page, as the note at the top says. It should be retitled as such, since the "official", automatically updated page is the Category:Idioms.  I'll start going through it removing items already tagged as idioms and ones not in "normal form" as described on CFI.  -dmh 15:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hsa been moved to appendix namespace, thus kept.--Keene 21:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

"This page is being phased out."
I hope this means moved or transformed somehow instead of removed. Could somebody kindly shed some light on this matter? Palosirkka (talk) 07:57, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Although I reference this page a lot, many idioms do not have verifiable sources... so regrettably that is probably the main reason for the phasing out... I assume it means removal, in the page itself, but certain idioms being incorporated in other fashions... (however, right or wrong explanations of idiomatic expressions; this page was very useful in my writing, and in my studies on literature.) 165.138.95.59 14:56, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

RFD discussion: April–July 2018
So, this page has finally been phased out. All decent red links (and probably a whole bunch of crap ones too) were moved to Requested entries (English). --Cien pies 6 (talk) 10:33, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This had a long edit history and lots of long lists that were copied elsewhere. Does that need to be kept for copyright purposes? -- Beland (talk) 22:57, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Copyright issues? Unlikely. --Harmonicaplayer (talk) 15:06, 16 June 2018 (UTC)


 * RFDO failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 06:04, 2 July 2018 (UTC)