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:

Once the provenance of hype has been established, you can discard Murphy's elaborate apparatus for explaining overhyped . That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.
Roger Flavell is a linguist, a scholar who has been interested in idioms for many years and was co-author of On Idioms , in the Exeter Linguistics Series.
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?
Dictionary of Idioms and their Origins
Like someone who hears a pun and then searches for a story to use it as a punch line, over the years I have collected mangled metaphors, battered idioms, and twisted expressions, always looking for explanations behind the novel usage.