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:
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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