Особливості використання ідіом

the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre. As his doing the one or the other was a mere question of time, he and Mrs. Pocket had taken Time by the forelock (when, to judge from its length, it would seem to have wanted cutting), and had married without the knowledge of the judicious parent. [V, p.135].

Вживання видозміненої ідіоматичної одиниці у вигляді переосмисленого прислів’я як прояв інтертекстуальності:

“And where Irene seems hard and cruel – as in the Bois de Boulogne, or the Goupenor Gallery – she is but wisely realistic, knowing that the least concession is an inch which precedes the impossible, the repulsive ell” [VI, c.37].

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Графік структурної класифікації ідіоматичних одиниць у художніх творах