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shainy gross
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Location: Bet Shemesh, Israel
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 Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: lost my voice - an idiom?? |
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In the sentence, "I yelled so much I lost my voice." is the phrase, "lost my voice" an idiom? I would think not because both "lost" (albeit temporarily) and "voice" are actual and not figurative nor dependant on colloquiallisms.
Please comment.
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Lucas Scott
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Kind of, sort of, whatever!
We also say "to lose one's sight/hearing/balance etc"
I think the meaning is quite simple. That means you stop having a ability or to gradually have less of it.
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