This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie s eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdie s idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main tenets of phraseo-stylistics are addressed. Then the physical presence of idiomatic expressions in Salman Rushdie s novels is examined and, finally, through close readings and textual analyses of Salman Rushdie s works, the functionality of idioms employed by the author in his prosaic works is determined. This study...