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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)
  • Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom.†  (source)
  • 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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  • The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The idiom apparently didn't translate.†  (source)
  • The idioms for revenge are "report a crime" and "report to five families."†  (source)
  • "But Response was good," Chacko prompted, trying to speak in the same idiom.†  (source)
  • The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances.†  (source)
  • They'd spent hours once, learning this idiom, working with a poster Caroline made of angry clouds, cats and dogs teeming from the sky.†  (source)
  • In the second, the apartment was his home, and he was lounging on the sofa, laughing uproariously as Charlie, for my benefit, reminisced about those contentious dinner-table lessons in American idioms.†  (source)
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