Words similar to idiomatic
Example sentences for: idiomatic
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My guess is that it will achieve, at the very least, a kind of status that is going to be conferred on more and more English locutions as time goes on: the status of a native idiomatic expression whose constituency is in fact an international group of English speakers.
It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.
My aim in this work is to illustrate what I believe is the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.
However, students of a foreign language soon realize that to master it fully, it is not enough to know the grammatical structure and basic vocabulary: one must also memorize a fair number of phrases and idiomatic expressions and, as a further step, proverbs and sayings.
Etymological dictionaries do pretty much the same, though for the most part they, like the OED , eschew information about multiword entries, idiomatic phrases, and such.