1-Whats Up American Idioms by Pamela McPartland
What's Up? is a book about idioms. In fact, "What's up?" is an idiom. An idiom is a group of words that has a special meaning. The meaning of the group of words is different from the meanings of the individual words together.
For example, the group of words "What's up?" means "What's new?" or "What's happening?" The word "up alone does not mean "new" or "happening," but when it's combined with "what's," it means "What's new?"
This doesn't mean that every group of words is an idiom. For example, "up the hill" is a group of words, but it doesn't have a special meaning. Each word has its ordinary meaning. In this example, "up" means the opposite of "down."
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