All 5 Uses
idiom
in
Glory Road
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- I have to launder this because Nevian idioms don't parallel ours†
Chpt 8
- Try translating certain French idioms literally into English and you'll see what I mean.†
Chpt 8 *
- You didn't know the idiom.†
Chpt 9
- That quaint hasn't been virgin since she's had breasts, to my certain knowledge—and I hear that Muri is 'some dish,' if that is the American idiom.†
Chpt 9
- I've studied American idiom most carefully but sometimes I am not sure.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(idiom) a way of putting things that is characteristic of a specific group of peopleAn idiom typically refers to an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up (as in "feeling under the weather"). It can also refer to a particular artistic style.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)