Sample Sentences foridiom (editor-reviewed)
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Having just arrived from Egypt, I did not understand what she meant by the idiom, "Don't cut corners."idiom = an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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The composer’s latest symphony masterfully employs the orchestral idiom, weaving together rich melodies and harmonies to create a truly breathtaking musical experience.idiom = distinctive way (in this case, in which orchestral music is composed and performed)
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She was not familiar with the idiom, "bite the bullet."idiom = an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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I stared through the Russian girl in her double-breasted gray suit, rattling off idiom after idiom in her own unknowable tongue-which Constantin said was the most difficult part, because the Russians didn't have the same idioms as our idioms-and I wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another. (source)
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Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom.† (source)
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"But Response was good," Chacko prompted, trying to speak in the same idiom.† (source)
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Wondering if the comlog had translated the word "sleep" properly or if it might be an idiom or metaphor for "die," I nodded and followed them toward the village at the edge of the Cleft.† (source)
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The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper.† (source)
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The ones who saw our isle as a morsel of Red China's pleasure have struck their faces in keen astonishment to see many great so-called powers of the olden guard reel in dismay before our leaping strides and charged-up hustling, freewheeling idiom of high-tech personal accomplishment and betterment of all peoples.† (source)
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And thanks to the word's versatility, the Russian people had finally been able to dispense with tired formalities, antiquated titles, bothersome idioms—even names!† (source)
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Though these people spoke in the stilted self-conscious idiom of the court, with each word intended to be a pearl for the jeweler-emperor, at one or two in the morning, when the music had stopped and the gatherings had broken up, Alessandro heard the real concert of empire-men who spoke like women and women who spoke like men, the click of latches, sighs, grunts, farts, shrieks, sobbing, the sound of small whips, arguments so fierce that they might have been between black jaguars in emerald jungles, and the sound, always, of people talking to themselves, alone, for even among the aristocrats, or perhaps especially among them, the war had shattered many families.† (source)
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Between Yiddish and gutter Russian, jumbled through a slur of Brooklynese and slang picked up from rap songs, sometimes Grisha's idioms didn't make it into any kind of English I could understand.† (source)
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They spoke in an idiom that I'd never heard before.† (source)
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The idioms for revenge are "report a crime" and "report to five families."† (source)
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In the idiom of symbology, there was one symbol that reigned supreme above all others.† (source)
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She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances.† (source)
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