idiom

Example Sentences

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Also: It is “a living thing, and like the adoption of a new word, phrase or idiom, each innovation made money more useful; the more useful it was, the more used it became.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Or, to use a Chinese idiom: kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

From BBC

They are embracing a Chinese idiom: “breaking the surface of the water.”

From The Wall Street Journal

His major works bear a proudly Jewish cast, invoking both folk and religious idioms to varying degrees while never veering far from the mainstream Western musical traditions and structures in which he was schooled.

From The Wall Street Journal

It may be the most overused idiom to ever exist, but life is short; the only way to live it is to try our hardest to like it.

From Salon