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 establishes Salman Rushdie's prose as highly idiomatic and the
author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts.
