Abstract:
The objectives of this research to find the forms and types used in the novel Idiom
in the Translation of John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief Into Indonesia in Hidayat
Saleh’s The Pelican Brief. The method used in this research was the descriptive
qualitative method. The data was analyzed by using Miles and Huberman(1984) .
There were seven forms of idiomatic expression, they are : idiomatic adjectives
and noun phrases, idiomatic common place and comparison, verbs and noun
which idiomatically go together. idiomatic adjective phrase, idiomatic
prepositional phrase, verb follow idiomatically by preposition and the last is
idiomatic verbal phrases having the verb to be. Also there were six types of
idiomatic expressions: proper names, figures of speech, subtitutes, abbreviation,
English phrasal compound and slang. The results shown that the dominant form is
verb follow idiomatically by preposition and the dominant type is slang with over
all total is : data that found in the novel pelican brief gadget cat from the future
