... features of idioms denoting Fear Based on reliably collected data, both English and Vietnamese idioms contain a great number of patterns denoting fear As a matter of fact, two different languages ... of inability to stand on one‟s feet, inability to move, inability to breath, increase in heart rate, lapse in heartbeat, and inability to speak The unusual changes can be applied in several English ... chapter is chapter in which syntactic features of English idioms of fear and its comparison with Vietnamese ones Concluding remarks A syntactic and semantic analysis of English idioms denoting...