Words similar to idioms

Example sentences for: idioms

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

The treatment of idioms is pretty much standard, with the origins that can be found in other works repeated: but they are couched in user-friendly language.
Or, as one of these idioms might put it: take care of the sound, and the sense will take care of itself.
I am delighted that Ruth Flanders has tried to show the interesting imagery underlying French and German idioms [Foreign Treasures, XXII,1,21].
It is odd to note that Idioms and Phrases Index (Gale Research Company, 1983), a compendious work indexing some 250,000 idioms and phrases, is missing from the rather eclectic Bibliography (where Logan Pearsall Smith, quoted at the beginning of the book, merits no mention either).
The Yiddish language, through its color, its target-accurate expressions, its raw idioms, and its sayings exudes a refreshing magic and laughter, mixed with sober thought, that has been handed down from generation to generation and from nation to nation.