Words similar to idiom

Example sentences for: idiom

How can you use “idiom” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In a recent television interview a British actor was recounting an anecdote in which he used the idiom the penny dropped , which means `I saw the light, came the dawn.
For modern readers, those who do not think instinctively in the idiom of Genesis and the Psalms, it is worth reviewing the kind of argument for equality found in biblical sources.
For the purposes of this "Breakfast Table," we've agreed to write to each other in "Breakfast Table"-ese, a particular idiom in which participants are cleverer and breezier and far more avid news junkies than they usually would be in real life.
The form (which I obtained) was downright gibberish, corresponding to no idiom on earth.
For I cannot approve of their way of refining, who corrupt our English idiom by mixing it too much with French: that is a sophistication of language, not an improvement of it; a turning English into French, rather than a refining of English by French.