idiom
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A teacher hoisted a huge sunflower made from dozens of balloons -- the plant's name in Mandarin is a homophone for a Chinese idiom about success.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
"Needham is running point" on Greenland, said a senior diplomat with knowledge of the talks, using a military idiom to describe Needham's leadership role.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Also: It is “a living thing, and like the adoption of a new word, phrase or idiom, each innovation made money more useful; the more useful it was, the more used it became.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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 • Oct. 12, 2025
Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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