idiom

Example Sentences

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It was only around then, he said, that he felt confident enough to fuse his inheritance in spirituals and gospel with classical forms and idioms.

From New York Times

It’s both flashy — clearing the copyrights took around nine months and $50,000 — and purposeful, speaking in the idiom of the youthful, culturally omnivorous listeners around which Tenderfoot hopes to build a new-media powerhouse.

From New York Times

They’re not the products of someone who has digested and transmuted her experience of those older artists into an original idiom, one that generates its own internal heat rather than depending on a borrowed glow.

From Washington Post

Like many Americans long removed from pastoral life, I still use its idioms, from “Hold your horses” and “stubborn as a mule” to “till the cows come home.”

From Seattle Times

He finds refuge in using the gender-ambiguous idioms, he said, of the devotional music and poetic traditions he grew up with.

From Washington Post