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...Https doi org bells ch daniela corina ionescu faculty of foreign languages and literatures university bucharest romania a contrastive analysis food idioms linguistic cultural perspectives abstract this paper will attempt to pinpoint the basic characteristics in english romanian cognitive lexical syntactic evinces certain structures which can be tested cross linguistically are analyzed contrastively terms their transparency opacity gradient starting from semantic composition flexibility i e possibilities given phrase undergo nominal modification substitution passivization aspectuality negative formation etc conceptual any such pair also include an image trigger gives rise metaphor or metonymic reading therefore figurative idiomatic interpretation by projecting literal meta language is source similarity dissimilarity between two reflected contrasted patterns key words meaning idiomaticity vs preliminary notes on definition scope view starts common assumption related structure non composi...