“…Since then, a handful of publications have been published to support such initiative in ACL field, particularly in relation to idiom comprehension and retention. The researchers (Kövecses and Szabó, 1996;Boers, 2000;Li, 2003;Beréndi et al, 2008;Kömür and Çimen, 2009;Vasiljevic, 2011;Samani and Hashemian, 2012;Chen and Lai, 2013;Doiz and Elizari, 2013;Hung, 2019;Guo, 2019;Pan, 2019;Pham and To, 2019) are of the opinion that implementing CMs as a medium of teaching idioms with appraising the students how different sets of idioms are motivated by specific CMs aid comprehension and retention of a wide range of idioms.…”