idioms

Example Sentences

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From The Wall Street Journal • 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 • Aug. 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 • Dec. 28, 2024

The rhymed verse the characters speak in doesn’t at all hinder them from expressing themselves colloquially, in idioms that sound better with a languorous Southern lilt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker