What “kick the bucket,” “in the first place,” and “come on in” have in common is that they represent different kinds of formulaic language. Formulaic language is non-propositional speech, including colloquialisms, idioms, schemas, collocations, proverbs, frozen or automatic speech, and phrasal verbs. In corpus linguistics and second-language/learner studies, it is more often examined as lexical bundles or n-grams, contiguous sequences of n-items, which are not as tied to meanings though they may point to such meanings, and are discussed below. The most frequently cited definition of formulaic language is