Drawing a Demarcation Line between Two Overlapping Colloquial Elements

The overlap between idioms and clichés is one of the problematic meaning issues. This can simply be detected in online as well academic sources. existence springs from absence a model that work out some demarcation boundary them. present study aims at drawing line these two essential colloquial elements by resorting to linguistic features, contextual functions, nature community practice based on interlocutors’ relationship, degree informality fulfill this purpose. makes use qualitative approach carry process analysis designed assist procedures determining features each element. With reference data, analysed have been extracted 20 discourses (10 written texts 10 recorded interactions) different topics. most significant concluding points come three angles: structure (an idiom mostly part meaningful statement, whereas cliché full statement itself); function (idioms are usually used for purposes: emphasis, creativity, persuasiveness, either simplify idea or state an without exerting any effort making overused statements common ritualized expressions); formality ( Idioms less informal compared clichés).