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idioms
noun as in manner of speaking, turn of phrase
Example Sentences
These vines are indirectly linked to one of the most notable idioms of our day.
Can I take refuge in the thought that the mash-up of French and American pastry idioms gives this donut some postmodern cred?
Other people did it, in their day, using their own icons and idioms.
And all over the world each language would be taught with the same accent and quantities and idioms—a very desirable thing indeed.
They understand one another perfectly in their respective idioms, and much better than we do.
It is only the habit of speaking, the idioms and niceties, which cannot be acquired except by converse with a native.
Notwithstanding the fact that we owe some of our strongest idioms to slang, the free use of slang always vulgarizes.
His reading has been principally confined to French authors; hence the Gallic idioms so common in his productions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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