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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
"But Response was good," Chacko prompted, trying to speak in the same idiom.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
PILKINGS He's picked up the idiom alright.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
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

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