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:

This is a small book containing a few hundred common idioms with standard definitions, citations, and suggested origins; adding to its value are the twenty-two brief essays on various aspects of the formation and characteristics of idioms.
New words, phrases, and idioms had to be coined--out of necessity.
Some of these idioms are the pachuco dialect, Chicano Spanish, New Mexico colonial Spanish, south Texas vocabulary, caló, and the argot of the tirilones of El Paso.
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.
...and some German idioms: