Looking someone with expertise in figurative language analysis. The task involves following the six steps below to identify an idiom variant “the train has left the building” . The aim would be to follow each step below, and show your workings for each task.
1. Recognize the idiom as a variant of a conventional idiom.
2. Retrieve the meaning of the original idiom.
3. Identify the constituent meanings of both the variant and the original idioms.
4. Compare the constituent meanings of the two idiom forms.
5. Identify the relation(s) between those meanings (e.g., verb tense, quantification, negation).
6. On the basis of this relation, infer the relation between the meanings of the original and variant idioms.
