The Content-in-Form-out method utilized herein regards the semantic structure of the VRO basic resultative construction as primitive and componential,and syntactic elements and relationships can only be defined within the constructions via symbolic form-meaning links.Some English idioms are analyzed to pave the way for a case study of a special Chinese ‘chase-tired’ VRO phenomenon,which is representatively adumbrated along a Content-in-Form-out analytic route to justify the existence of semantically densely...