Tom doesn't buy it. - English example sentence

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Objectivesea January 10, 2021 January 10, 2021 at 9:37:45 PM UTC

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This English sentence has a literal meaning — that he does not complete a proposed purchase — but the most frequent English meaning is the idiomatic one that he does not accept a statement or argument to be true.

CK January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021 at 1:19:46 AM UTC

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> but the most frequent English meaning is the idiomatic one

By far the more likely meaning in this tense.

In other tenses, the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning are both perhaps more equally likely

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