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:

I am not sure that anyone has attempted their documentation, but it is well known that an enormous number of clichés, idioms, metaphors, and other expressions used in everyday contemporary speech and writing derive from the writings of Shakespeare and other contributors to the imagery and poetry of the language.
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).
Would Mellinkoff banish such useful words as heretofore, theretofore, hereto, and therefor ? Would we abandon the subjunctive mood, adverbs, Latin idioms, bon mots, and the like?
A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.
The reductio ad absurdum of this move is the common declarative Fuck that shit! , where an all-purpose verb and an all-inclusive noun stand in for all manner of once-current idioms, including the hell with .