All 3 Uses
idiom
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- She was drawing up idioms in the list, visions of me in the whitest raw light, instant snapshots of the difficult truths native to our time together.†
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- "Forget it," he said, but I knew his quick answer, if anything, was just an American convention, an easy idiom.†
- We will learn every lesson of accent and idiom, we will dismantle every last pretense and practice you hold, noble as well as ruinous.†
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)