idiom
Example Sentences
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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.”
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.
He called the latest arrests a "systematic roundup" to "unroot Zion", and quoted the Chinese idiom "killing the chicken to scare the monkeys".
From BBC
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
