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Example sentences for: idiom

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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.
He took elements from the major 20 th -century schools of art--Cubism, but also Futurism, Neoclassicism, and Surrealism--and forged his own peculiar idiom, one that seemed as racy and street-smart as slang.
If such an idiom occurs in a direct quotation it ought to be left the way it was, then explained, even though the rhythm of the writing be disturbed.
In the preface to the first volume of that great dictionary, Murray thanked Hall expansively for his voluntary and gratuitous service: Those who are familiar with the pages of his Modern English , his English Adjectives in -able [1877], and his numerous articles and papers on special points of English, know with what an amazing wealth of evidence the author illustrates the history of every word, idiom, or grammatical usage, upon which he touches.
Better yet, the dubbed Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, and company made me conscious of how I had originally “heard” Superman I , and of how I commonly ignore what pitch and range (apart from diction and idiom) contribute to any language.