Abstract:
This study deal with the analysis of idiomatic expression found in the Indonesian
subtitle of The Parent Trap movie. The objectives of the study were to find out the
idiomatic expression and to classify the idiomatic expression found in The Parent
Trap movie. The data in this research was taken from subtitle of The Parent Trap
movie. The film has 128 minutes duration. Descriptive qualitative method was
applied to analyze the data. Thus, in doing this research, library research was
applied in analyzing the data. From the data obtained, there were fifty five (55)
utterances found in the movie The Parent Trap that contained of idiomatic
expression. Based on the data analysis, it was found that there were eight (8)
classification of idiomatic expression based on the Indonesian subtitle of the
movie The Parent Trap. They were:Idiom with the key words from special
categories 5 (part of time 2, part of body 1, part of number 1, part of comparative
degree 1), idioms with preposition 2, phrasal verb 15, sentences 11, idiomatic
pairs 6 (pairs of adjective 2, pairs of adverb 2, pairs of verb 2), idiom with noun
and adjective 6 (adjective and noun 4, noun phrase 2), verbal idiom 7, key word
with idiomatic uses 2 (adjective and adverb)
