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a way of putting things that is characteristic of a specific group of people- "On y va," (coming) exclaimed Peppino, who from frequenting the house of Signor Pastrini understood French perfectly in all its idioms.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- "He looks anemic, not just icteric," she managed to say at last, clinging to the idiom of medicine to describe my pallor and jaundice.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- In the idiom of symbology, there was one symbol that reigned supreme above all others.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- It's another idiom entirely.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- This was the first time in almost seven years that Zooey had, in the ready-made dramatic idiom, "set foot" in Seymour's and Buddy's old room.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- I thought I spoke in epitaph-in the idiom of man.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- PILKINGS He's picked up the idiom alright.Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
- "But Response was good," Chacko prompted, trying to speak in the same idiom.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Qendrim, smaller by a head, handed him the ball and responded with an English idiom he'd only recently picked up from a Justin Timberlake tune.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- I should greatly prefer to employ your excellent English idiom and say that we are all of us here 'for good.'James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- What image or idiom will make it clearer?George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language
- Catching him squarely in the eye' gets the idiom better, I think."Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- And her English was a mishmash of mixed-up idioms and sayings that showed she was "green behind the ears," as she called it.Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- With the same suddenness as before, meaning scaled the horizon to another idiom, leaving David stranded on a sounding but empty shore.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- I said, using one of my favorite Siaru idioms.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- The idioms, the figures of speech that make language rich and full of the poetry of place and time must go.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- Yetta, I had come to learn, was deep down a good egg, or, in the other idiom, a balbatisheh lady.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road