Idioms like rock and roll, the birds and the bees, and collocations like mix and match, and wear and tear have particular meanings apart from or beyond those of their constituent words. ![]() Many irreversible binomials are catchy due to alliteration, rhyming, or ablaut reduplication, so becoming clichés or catchphrases. The 2015 edition reverts to the scholarly name, "irreversible binomials", as "Siamese twins" had become offensive. Ernest Gowers used the name Siamese twins (i.e., conjoined twins) in the 1965 edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage. The term "irreversible binomial" was introduced by Yakov Malkiel in 1954, though various aspects of the phenomenon had been discussed since at least 1903 under different names: a "terminological imbroglio". The order of word elements cannot be reversed. They also belong to the same part of speech: nouns ( milk and honey), adjectives ( short and sweet), or verbs ( do or die). The words have some semantic relationship and are usually connected by the words and or or. ![]() ![]() In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair is a pair or group of words used together in fixed order as an idiomatic expression or collocation. The order of the two keywords of this familiar expression cannot be reversed idiomatically. The expression " macaroni and cheese" is an irreversible binomial.
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