How do you make an idiom?

Answer 1

It is very difficult to make an idiom, since they usually occur spontaneously and are adopted by a wide number of people. But here are the basics of how you might could do it, but there is no guarantee.

First, you would need to find a symbol to use as a metaphor for something else. Lets suppose you think of a tree falling. That can represent something extreme or heavy. Then you would start using it. So you might say, "I'm falling like a tree in love with you!" So that could mean that you are not only falling in love, but falling in love in a hard and monumental way. So you have a private idiom. You could use it with family and friends, and you might have to explain it. This becomes the hard part, since you might explain and explain and it might never catch on. You could sit down and attempt to write an idiom and try using it, but you might never find enough people to use it to where it reaches critical mass.