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Language that uses most and least idioms

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COF
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10 March 2012 at 3:58pm | IP Logged 
In standard language, which language tends to use most idioms and which language tends to speak more literally, and not make so much use of idioms?
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clumsy
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15 March 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged 
It's hard to tell that, but I would vote Chinese, There are so-called 4 character idioms in Chinese, and you can find very big collections of them on some websites.

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