Detailed Instructions: Given the Question and Answer pair, detect whether the answer is acceptable or not. Denote acceptable answer as "yes", otherwise denote as "no". An acceptable answer is consistent with the context in question, detailed, long, and uses general knowledge of English. Answers that are not definite and suggest a variety of options are not acceptable answers.
Problem:Question: Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between an expression and a phrase? Difference between "phrase" and "idiom" What is the difference between a phrase, an idiom and an expression? I am looking for the context where one is more appropriate than the rest. I've been using idiom and phrase more or less interchangeably.
Answer: This question asks nearly the same thing. This is the difference between an idiom and a phrase: A phrase is "a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit", while an idiom is "a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words". So, the difference is that an idiom as an established meaning not directly linked to the individual words. Any idiom is a phrase. As an example, "raining cats and dogs" is both an idiom and a phrase. "A herd of cats" is a phrase but not an idiom. Expression has about the same meaning as phrase, except it is usually used of a phrase which is in common use. So an idiom is a certain sort of expression, which in turn is a subset of phrase: idiom > expression > phrase.
Solution:
yes