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The analyses presented in this study are an answer that proper names are quite often used in English idioms. We have analyzed 97 idioms: 73 with personal names and 24 with place names. The origin of personal and place names in English idioms are of different types. In spite of this we identified the following six groups of the origin of personal names:
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Mythical
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Derived from religion
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Based on characters of the films, books, cartoons.
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The real persons.
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Folk etymology.
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Others.
The analysis showed that idioms with personal names are used in English language more frequently that idioms with place names.
Almost all the place names are authentic, not made-up. Among personal names the most frequent were names derived from religion and characters of books, films etc. Number of idioms with personal names that derived from mythology was the smallest one.
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