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• It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.From the entry case
• Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".From the entry listeme
• Idioms are a common stumbling block for learners of a language.From the entry stumbling block
• Should we classify "make up" as an idiom or as a phrasal verb?From the entry classify
• If he plans to translate all the idioms, he has his work cut out for him.From the entry have one's work cut out for one
• She fancies herself a writer, but she'll steamroll idiom in a way that reveals a wooden ear.From the entry wooden ear
• But contemporary musical theatre covers so many different musical idioms and requires tremendous vocal dexterity .2022 March 13, David Sisco, Laura Josepher, Performing in Contemporary Musicals, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry screlt
• To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times. From the entry online
• The cranberry word in this idiom is kelaħ, which has no known literal meaning.2019, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux et al., “Verbal multiword expressions: Idiomaticity and flexibility”, in Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk…. From the entry cranberry word
• There are always newly coined slang terms, fresh idioms, and these days unexpected “twitterisms” to deal with.2017, Rebecca L. Oxford, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context (Applied Linguistics in…. From the entry twitterism
• Perhaps most importantly, Globish cannot draw on the history and idioms of any one culture.2012, Gerard Kelly, Church Actually: Rediscovering the Brilliance of God's Plan, page 144. From the entry Globish
• Only don't ruin your stomach, it gives a peculiar teaish idiom to your work.2009, William Carlos Williams, Andrew Krivak, The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, page 291. From the entry teaish
• Some of the idioms cited are slang items that have stuck in popular usage.[2003, Efurosibina Adegbija, “Idiomatic Variation in Nigerian English”, in Peter Lucko, Peter Lothar, Hans-Georg Wolf, editors, Studies in…. From the entry fashy
• By their juxtaposition with perfectly colloquial idioms, these words present the erroneous appearance of neologism.2003, Alan Singer, Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, University Park, P.A.: The Pennsylvania State University Press…. From the entry pseudoneologism
• Smith’s (multivalent) hat and restates Mabbott’s position in the millineric idiom: . . .1994, Raymond Earl Jennings, “What Does Disjunction do?”, in The Genealogy of Disjunction, New York, N.Y.; Oxford: Oxford University…. From the entry millineric
• Isn’t it, he adds for Indian idiom and bursts out laughing.1991, Christine Brooke-Rose, Textermination, New Directions Books, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry oxblood
• The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.1988, J. A. Mangan, editor, Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914, page 266. From the entry barrack
• Because of the latter effect, these samples are called, in the laboratory idiom, "soundy".1984, D Senatra, CMC Gambi - Il Nuovo Cimento D, “Thermally-stimulated-depolarization study on the highly viscous isotropic mesophase of…. From the entry soundy
• Alfred Inglethorp that astute gentleman would have—in your so expressive idiom—‘smelt a rat’!1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 178. From the entry smell a rat
• A Tudesque idiom, Flemish, has remained in use in our northern provinces.1902, Demetrius Charles Boulger, The history of Belgium, page 40. From the entry Tudesque
• Any natural language processing system that does not have a knowledge of non-compositional idioms and their interpretation will make mistakes.2007, Faye Rochelle Baron, Identifying non-compositional idioms in text using WordNet synsets. From the entry non-compositional
• Toward the end of the nineteenth century, he made a series of designs in the Neogothic idiom of Martorell.2000, Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect. From the entry neogothic
• As if this were not a decent discful, Hillier has added two more works in the chant idiom.1994, Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 18, page 235. From the entry discful
• Each spoke the other's language fluently, but they usually talked Russlish to ensure that idioms and shaded meanings were correctly transmitted.1988, G. Harry Stine, Operation High Dragon, page 14. From the entry Russlish
• The student is thus trained from the start not to transverbalize but to substitute concept for concept, idiom for idiom.1948, The Modern Language Forum, page 106. From the entry transverbalize
• Transverbalizing idioms is misleading, as it gives wrong notions about their meanings to those not already acquainted with their sense.1943, The American Ecclesiastical Review: A Monthly Publication for the Clergy, page 110. From the entry transverbalize
• He employs the Lithuanian Yiddish idiom with some Germanisms.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 446. From the entry Germanism
• The municipality of Sauris, or “Zahre” in the local “zahrar sproche” idiom, is located in the Province of Udine, in northeastern Italy.2019, Maurizio Droli, The Albergo Diffuso Model: Community-based hospitality for a sustained competitive advantage, Walter de Gruyter GmbH…. From the entry Sauris
• An idiom is defined as a non-compositional multiword expression, one whose meaning cannot be deduced from the definitions of the component words.2019, Alyssa Hwang, Christopher Hidey, Confirming the Non-compositionality of Idioms for Sentiment Analysis. From the entry non-compositional
• This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern…. From the entry Twiplomacy
• Finally, we can identify certain idioms clearly of Semitic origin, but which are not found in the Bible – one might term them post-biblical Semitisms.2012, Simon Gathercole, The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas, →ISBN. From the entry Semitism
• In the final scene, the fish-eyed camera plummets headlong down the rope toward the ground in the idiom of the helmet-cammed bungee jump.2010, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry fish-eyed
• It's sort of a Sherlock Holmesque thing, to try and pin down where a person is from based on their idioms and figures of speech.2008 December 19, Geoff Miller, “Just One Word (Not Even!)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet). From the entry Sherlock Holmesque

Meaning of idiom

1. noun A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
2. noun A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
3. noun A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context, etc.

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• Idiom in Hindi
• Idiom in Tamil
• Idiom in Marathi
• Idiom in Urdu

Questions about idiom in a sentence

How do you use idiom in a sentence?

Idiom is used as a noun. For example: “In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.”

What is a short sentence with idiom?

“the idiom of the expressionists”

What does idiom mean?

Idiom means a manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.