idiom
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Please put on your batteries — a Mexican Spanish idiom that means to cowboy up.
From Los Angeles Times â Jul. 10, 2026
Part of that idiom is the boisterous humour that the Punjab region is known for, portrayed in part through Sajawal's mother, the imposing matriarch Sohni Ammi.
From Barron's â Feb. 21, 2026
Or, to use a Chinese idiom: kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
From BBC â Nov. 8, 2025
It may be the most overused idiom to ever exist, but life is short; the only way to live it is to try our hardest to like it.
From Salon â Oct. 12, 2025
When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
AI-powered bots handle some tasks entirely, and can help translate or flag idioms for human agents.
From The Wall Street Journal â Mar. 5, 2026
It's hard to miss the evidence: huge, bright ads of chilli-laced dishes and, sometimes, Chinese idioms, in malls, buses and subway stations.
From BBC â Aug. 16, 2025
The way you incorporate Spanish words and idioms into the novel makes me feel like I’m inside the culture.
From Los Angeles Times â Jun. 16, 2025
Nothing more comforting than hearing a bunch of guys from San Clemente describe things as “gnarly” or Australians deploy idioms that I could only dream of.
From Slate â Dec. 28, 2024
The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Vocabulary lists containing idiom
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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Vivacious Vernacular: Words About Slang
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