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Do You Speak American?
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Away from that intellectual battleground, ordinary Americans can be either gloriously relaxed about their language or, to use the popular idiom, decidedly uptight.†
Chpt 1 *
The Indian employees are mostly college-educated and take pains, if not to sound American, to adopt certain American idioms and catchphrases acquired from watching TV sitcoms.†
Chpt 2
Since he left the music trade, Friedman has lived on a small farm in the Texas Hill Country near Bandera, where he churns out detective stories and other books, utilizing as much Texas idiom as he can stuff in.†
Chpt 4
It has been called "this appalling English dialect....gutter slang...the dialect of the pimp, the idiom of the gang-banger and the street thug."†
Chpt 6
One wave of popularity for black idiom among whites came in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was cool for New Yorkers to go to Harlem to hear jazz greats like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong but also the hepcat Cab Calloway, who created a 'Jive Talk Dictionary" in song, popularizing expressions such as hip (wise, sophisticated), in the groove (perfect), square (unhip), and chick (girl), or a hip chick (a beautiful girl).†
Chpt 6
There is also the complexity of our idioms.†
Chpt 8
Any database would have to be rich in common idioms to avoid the charming mistakes one finds in public signs in non-English-speaking countries, such as this in a Norwegian cocktail lounge: "Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar."†
Chpt 8

Definitions:

(1) (idiom)
a way of putting things that is characteristic of a specific group of people

An 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)