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:

The jolly old bean's got his jolly old back up , so one sees how smoothly these stories prepared the readers for the transition to Wodehouse and encapsulated the idea of the laid-back Englishman in the idiom of that time.
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.
Others are implicitly or expressly taken from an imaginary tongue such as Paonese or the idiom of the Dirdir, or that of the Water-folk (e.g., the shibbolethic brga skth gz).
Whatever the merits of the rather severe idiom in which Hegel chose to couch his ideas, he was nonetheless a member in good standing in the wine lovers' circle.
A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.