Example sentences for: idiom

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

  • has a primitive, Easter Island look: Léger paints a holly leaf in exactly the same black-on-red idiom, as though the nude woman is a botanical exhibit.

  • With the advent of the Channel Tunnel, however, we may expect a Gallic idiom to enter common usage as the century itself chunders towards the year 2000...

  • Also at that time, rustic laborers in Italy used to have the number 100 painted on their privy-doors; to go al numero cento was an accepted idiom of the day: indeed, children used to have fun replacing the last zero with a one after the privy had been used.

  • 10) that the idiom dressed to the nines could be from Middle English dressed to then eynes `dressed to the eyes.

  • This seems an appropriate place to describe a personal experience that took place in 1970, when I was far less conversant with British idiom than today (though I hasten to point out that it is unlikely that one can ever become fully bi-dialectal any more that one can become perfectly bilingual).


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