Definition of idiom in English:

idiom

noun ˈɪdɪəmˈɪdiəm

1A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light).
Example sentencesExamples
- Consider the case of idioms which contain a word which has no uses outside the idiom itself.
- They can be familial or communal, as when an ethos, history, or way of life is articulated in ideas and words, manners, customs, folkways, myths, idioms, categories of discourse.
- On the other hand, Indian and Western philosophical studies should be pursued independently using idioms, language, and metaphors appropriate to the investigations.
- To be an adept speech-reader generally requires fluency in the language, as speech-reading requires knowledge of idioms and predicting what phrases would be most likely to occur in any given context.
- Still, ‘horse and buggy’ is a fixed expression, a collocation, an idiom, and ‘buggy and horse’ is not.
- Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors.
- For this, the dictionary has 80,000 words and phrases with over 10,000 phrasal verbs and idioms highlighted.
- We turn next to semantic constraints triggered by the lexical properties of certain predicates, idioms, and anaphoric expressions.
- Given a larger sample, individual idioms might be more precisely defined and differentiated from one another.
- Brewer's aim was to help readers understand the context of the catchphrases, clichés, slogans and odd linguistic idioms by which the British make themselves understood.
- My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level.
- Their problem is to understand when people talk in indirect speech and use irony, idioms and metaphors because they take each sentence literally.
- English is a difficult enough language to learn without all the idioms and metaphors and other figures of speech.
- Even though I'm a carefree user of idioms like ‘I could care less’, I agree with John's judgment about ‘don't care less.’
- According to the most common definition, idioms are linguistic expressions whose overall meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent parts.
- Students also were sincere in writing diaries in their rooms by asking various questions about words, idioms, and the differences between Korean and English.
- First, one must have a firm command over classical Arabic language including its vocabulary, grammar, metaphors, and idioms.
- Even the latter has been impregnated with American words and idioms, a process certain to continue.
- India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, and its distinctive words, idioms, grammar, rhetoric and rhythms are numerous and pervasive.
- American Sign Language, which has its own grammatical system, cannot be translated word for word because of idioms.
Synonyms
expression, idiomatic expression, turn of phrase, set phrase, fixed expression, phrase
formal locution
1. 1.1mass noun A form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
  he had a feeling for phrase and idiom
  Example sentencesExamples
  You have always been fond of quaint and archaic words, so I shall speak to you in your own idiom, rather than vainly attempting to adopt the modes and manners of modern English, as she is spoken today.
  He not only lent a thundering voice to Panthic politics but also gave a new meaning, direction and idiom to it.
  But this is a highly agreeable book, saved by Shelby Hearon's command of irony and idiom from the cliches of sentimental romance.
  We, of course, would say that the members are in the club: the example therefore illustrates the way in which Spinoza's purified metaphysical idiom conflicts with the language of man.
  The translations I offer aim to transcribe the phrasing of the French as exactly as possible, often at the expense of English idiom or felicity of expression.
  In one way you can look at the book as an anthology of fairy-tales retold in a modern idiom.
  In turn, tradition was transformed into a modern idiom creating continuity between old and new.
  Sprachgefuhl (with an umlaut over the ‘u’) is a feeling for language, a sensitiveness to idiom.
  A language of this kind would not share the disadvantages of a scientific idiom different from common usage.
  When the movie Wayne's World was released in Latin America, a lot of the film's American idiom and idiosyncratic language didn't translate well, if at all.
  Regional differences need the idiom of globalisation to articulate themselves.
  The Jews spoke an Islamic cultural language, and in giving their cultural idiom a material expression, they relied on contemporary Islamic art for inspiration.
  The film is an accurate witness to the Gospels using a modern idiom.
  She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom.
  But he is a politician who came to power using the idiom of fellowship and community.
  The ideology has its importance in that it puts in an Islamic idiom what might otherwise be expressed in a nationalist or Marxist idiom.
  Fritsche's point is that Heidegger's idiom and use of language were part of a shared tradition of right-wing thought that emerged in the 1920s in Germany.
  Rexroth had reimagined the poems as the work of someone on the other side of the Pacific Rim, speaking in a plain, natural-breathing, neutral American idiom.
  We need to make that point-in a warm and affectionate way, and in their language and idiom.
  The few reviews written in a public idiom whether in literary journals or the general press are increasingly characterized by their blandly uncritical quality.
  Synonyms
  language, mode of expression, style of speech, speech, talk, -speak, way/manner of speaking, usage, phraseology, phrasing, choice of words, vocabulary, parlance, tongue, vernacular, jargon, patter, argot, patois, cant
  French façon de parler
  informal lingo
  formal locution
2. 1.2 The dialect of a people or part of a country.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The author's use of a southern idiom adds regional charm.
  The linguistic logic of the dot.com bubble was expressed in a particularly Californian idiom.
  There are southern and northern dialects, each having three regional idioms.
  She perfectly recreates the idioms and dialects of a certain sort of Manchester, and it was un-put-downable in a slightly addictive, confessional way.
  It is an uphill task capturing the true spirit of the original, not missing out on the nuances and finer points of the dialect and the local idiom, or for that matter, the tenor and authentic flavour of the literary work in question.
  The soap videos provide both a glimpse of popular British culture and useful exposure to regional accents and idioms.
  Synonyms
  regional language, local language, local tongue, local speech, local parlance, variety of language
2A characteristic mode of expression in music or art.
they were both working in a neo-impressionist idiom
Example sentencesExamples
- The New York Times explained that ‘Monroe created one of the most durable idioms in American music.’
- Composers are not standing in line to compose ballets, and, in fact, the idiom of much modern music might not be all that suitable for dance.
- He then spent two years in Paris, and on his return to New York worked in the prevailing Abstract Expressionist idiom, being particularly influenced by Jackson Pollock.
- Similarly, in their music, whole groups of people have often adopted characteristic idioms and inflections, which in course of time took the form of favouring some pitches or pitch intervals and avoiding others.
- At the same time his style changed, as he abandoned Cubist leanings for a more naturalistic idiom.
- In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies.
- Although I really don't like Jazz, I do like the way Gershwin uses the jazz idiom to create sublime music, that sounds fresh and modern eighty years after it was written.
- The dance and the dancer's idiom transcend time, space and language.
- But the more I hear it the more I hear Jewish melodies expressed through German musical idioms - and vice versa.
- Drawing is still widely regarded in the Indian art world as a subordinate idiom; however complex or powerful a drawing may be, very few viewers are disposed to accord it an autonomous position.
- An accomplished singer, she is well versed in singing various styles and idioms of music.
- But the Lowell of Life Studies was nothing but a maker - a poet who forged the apparently natural idiom on which other poets were to depend.
- Long a downtown resident, Mitchell treats, within the confines of his abstract idiom, such natural phenomena as clouds and trees, as well as the urban language of streets and buildings.
- The second device relied on words rather than theatrical idioms and images.
- Now 29, Kate is quite content to stick with folk, rather than crossing her music with more mainstream idioms to court commercial success.
- Stylistically, she has moved from a highly detailed, expressive idiom to a pared-down rendition of place in which the gestural mark is less pronounced.
- As a result, music hall idioms and artistes were ubiquitous.
- Carrà, Soffici, and Ottone Rosai contributed to the Strapaese circle with landscapes and genre painting rendered in a conservative, naturalist idiom.
- He creates paintings on the lines of the artistes of yore who not only adopted a conventional artistic idiom, but also used natural dyes.
- In his abstract expressionist paintings, popular idioms found in his music clearly present themselves.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French idiome, or via late Latin from Greek idiōma 'private property, peculiar phraseology', from idiousthai 'make one's own', from idios 'own, private'.

This goes back to Greek idiōma ‘private or peculiar phraseology’, from idiousthai ‘make one's own’ from Greek idios ‘own, private’. Idiosyncrasy (early 17th century) is from idios combined with sun ‘with’ and krasis ‘mixture’, and originally meant ‘physical constitution peculiar to an individual’.

Rhymes

cryptosporidium, cymbidium, iridium, rubidium

Definition of idiom in US English:

idiom

nounˈidēəmˈɪdiəm

1A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light).
Example sentencesExamples
- We turn next to semantic constraints triggered by the lexical properties of certain predicates, idioms, and anaphoric expressions.
- Students also were sincere in writing diaries in their rooms by asking various questions about words, idioms, and the differences between Korean and English.
- English is a difficult enough language to learn without all the idioms and metaphors and other figures of speech.
- On the other hand, Indian and Western philosophical studies should be pursued independently using idioms, language, and metaphors appropriate to the investigations.
- India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, and its distinctive words, idioms, grammar, rhetoric and rhythms are numerous and pervasive.
- My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level.
- They can be familial or communal, as when an ethos, history, or way of life is articulated in ideas and words, manners, customs, folkways, myths, idioms, categories of discourse.
- Given a larger sample, individual idioms might be more precisely defined and differentiated from one another.
- Their problem is to understand when people talk in indirect speech and use irony, idioms and metaphors because they take each sentence literally.
- Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors.
- Even the latter has been impregnated with American words and idioms, a process certain to continue.
- Even though I'm a carefree user of idioms like ‘I could care less’, I agree with John's judgment about ‘don't care less.’
- Consider the case of idioms which contain a word which has no uses outside the idiom itself.
- First, one must have a firm command over classical Arabic language including its vocabulary, grammar, metaphors, and idioms.
- Brewer's aim was to help readers understand the context of the catchphrases, clichés, slogans and odd linguistic idioms by which the British make themselves understood.
- Still, ‘horse and buggy’ is a fixed expression, a collocation, an idiom, and ‘buggy and horse’ is not.
- To be an adept speech-reader generally requires fluency in the language, as speech-reading requires knowledge of idioms and predicting what phrases would be most likely to occur in any given context.
- For this, the dictionary has 80,000 words and phrases with over 10,000 phrasal verbs and idioms highlighted.
- According to the most common definition, idioms are linguistic expressions whose overall meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent parts.
- American Sign Language, which has its own grammatical system, cannot be translated word for word because of idioms.
Synonyms
expression, idiomatic expression, turn of phrase, set phrase, fixed expression, phrase
1. 1.1 A form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
  he had a feeling for phrase and idiom
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ideology has its importance in that it puts in an Islamic idiom what might otherwise be expressed in a nationalist or Marxist idiom.
  We need to make that point-in a warm and affectionate way, and in their language and idiom.
  But he is a politician who came to power using the idiom of fellowship and community.
  In turn, tradition was transformed into a modern idiom creating continuity between old and new.
  Regional differences need the idiom of globalisation to articulate themselves.
  The Jews spoke an Islamic cultural language, and in giving their cultural idiom a material expression, they relied on contemporary Islamic art for inspiration.
  Sprachgefuhl (with an umlaut over the ‘u’) is a feeling for language, a sensitiveness to idiom.
  The translations I offer aim to transcribe the phrasing of the French as exactly as possible, often at the expense of English idiom or felicity of expression.
  Rexroth had reimagined the poems as the work of someone on the other side of the Pacific Rim, speaking in a plain, natural-breathing, neutral American idiom.
  We, of course, would say that the members are in the club: the example therefore illustrates the way in which Spinoza's purified metaphysical idiom conflicts with the language of man.
  In one way you can look at the book as an anthology of fairy-tales retold in a modern idiom.
  The film is an accurate witness to the Gospels using a modern idiom.
  The few reviews written in a public idiom whether in literary journals or the general press are increasingly characterized by their blandly uncritical quality.
  A language of this kind would not share the disadvantages of a scientific idiom different from common usage.
  When the movie Wayne's World was released in Latin America, a lot of the film's American idiom and idiosyncratic language didn't translate well, if at all.
  But this is a highly agreeable book, saved by Shelby Hearon's command of irony and idiom from the cliches of sentimental romance.
  He not only lent a thundering voice to Panthic politics but also gave a new meaning, direction and idiom to it.
  Fritsche's point is that Heidegger's idiom and use of language were part of a shared tradition of right-wing thought that emerged in the 1920s in Germany.
  You have always been fond of quaint and archaic words, so I shall speak to you in your own idiom, rather than vainly attempting to adopt the modes and manners of modern English, as she is spoken today.
  She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom.
  Synonyms
  language, mode of expression, style of speech, speech, talk, -speak, manner of speaking, way of speaking, usage, phraseology, phrasing, choice of words, vocabulary, parlance, tongue, vernacular, jargon, patter, argot, patois, cant
2. 1.2 The dialect of a people or part of a country.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is an uphill task capturing the true spirit of the original, not missing out on the nuances and finer points of the dialect and the local idiom, or for that matter, the tenor and authentic flavour of the literary work in question.
  The author's use of a southern idiom adds regional charm.
  There are southern and northern dialects, each having three regional idioms.
  The linguistic logic of the dot.com bubble was expressed in a particularly Californian idiom.
  She perfectly recreates the idioms and dialects of a certain sort of Manchester, and it was un-put-downable in a slightly addictive, confessional way.
  The soap videos provide both a glimpse of popular British culture and useful exposure to regional accents and idioms.
  Synonyms
  regional language, local language, local tongue, local speech, local parlance, variety of language
2A characteristic mode of expression in music or art.
they were both working in a neo-impressionist idiom
Example sentencesExamples
- As a result, music hall idioms and artistes were ubiquitous.
- Long a downtown resident, Mitchell treats, within the confines of his abstract idiom, such natural phenomena as clouds and trees, as well as the urban language of streets and buildings.
- Now 29, Kate is quite content to stick with folk, rather than crossing her music with more mainstream idioms to court commercial success.
- An accomplished singer, she is well versed in singing various styles and idioms of music.
- Similarly, in their music, whole groups of people have often adopted characteristic idioms and inflections, which in course of time took the form of favouring some pitches or pitch intervals and avoiding others.
- The dance and the dancer's idiom transcend time, space and language.
- In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies.
- He then spent two years in Paris, and on his return to New York worked in the prevailing Abstract Expressionist idiom, being particularly influenced by Jackson Pollock.
- But the more I hear it the more I hear Jewish melodies expressed through German musical idioms - and vice versa.
- The second device relied on words rather than theatrical idioms and images.
- Although I really don't like Jazz, I do like the way Gershwin uses the jazz idiom to create sublime music, that sounds fresh and modern eighty years after it was written.
- The New York Times explained that ‘Monroe created one of the most durable idioms in American music.’
- In his abstract expressionist paintings, popular idioms found in his music clearly present themselves.
- At the same time his style changed, as he abandoned Cubist leanings for a more naturalistic idiom.
- He creates paintings on the lines of the artistes of yore who not only adopted a conventional artistic idiom, but also used natural dyes.
- But the Lowell of Life Studies was nothing but a maker - a poet who forged the apparently natural idiom on which other poets were to depend.
- Drawing is still widely regarded in the Indian art world as a subordinate idiom; however complex or powerful a drawing may be, very few viewers are disposed to accord it an autonomous position.
- Composers are not standing in line to compose ballets, and, in fact, the idiom of much modern music might not be all that suitable for dance.
- Carrà, Soffici, and Ottone Rosai contributed to the Strapaese circle with landscapes and genre painting rendered in a conservative, naturalist idiom.
- Stylistically, she has moved from a highly detailed, expressive idiom to a pared-down rendition of place in which the gestural mark is less pronounced.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French idiome, or via late Latin from Greek idiōma ‘private property, peculiar phraseology’, from idiousthai ‘make one's own’, from idios ‘own, private’.

单词	idiom
释义	Definition of idiom in English: idiom noun ˈɪdɪəmˈɪdiəm 1A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light). Example sentencesExamples Consider the case of idioms which contain a word which has no uses outside the idiom itself. They can be familial or communal, as when an ethos, history, or way of life is articulated in ideas and words, manners, customs, folkways, myths, idioms, categories of discourse. On the other hand, Indian and Western philosophical studies should be pursued independently using idioms, language, and metaphors appropriate to the investigations. To be an adept speech-reader generally requires fluency in the language, as speech-reading requires knowledge of idioms and predicting what phrases would be most likely to occur in any given context. Still, ‘horse and buggy’ is a fixed expression, a collocation, an idiom, and ‘buggy and horse’ is not. Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors. For this, the dictionary has 80,000 words and phrases with over 10,000 phrasal verbs and idioms highlighted. We turn next to semantic constraints triggered by the lexical properties of certain predicates, idioms, and anaphoric expressions. Given a larger sample, individual idioms might be more precisely defined and differentiated from one another. Brewer's aim was to help readers understand the context of the catchphrases, clichés, slogans and odd linguistic idioms by which the British make themselves understood. My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level. Their problem is to understand when people talk in indirect speech and use irony, idioms and metaphors because they take each sentence literally. English is a difficult enough language to learn without all the idioms and metaphors and other figures of speech. Even though I'm a carefree user of idioms like ‘I could care less’, I agree with John's judgment about ‘don't care less.’ According to the most common definition, idioms are linguistic expressions whose overall meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent parts. Students also were sincere in writing diaries in their rooms by asking various questions about words, idioms, and the differences between Korean and English. First, one must have a firm command over classical Arabic language including its vocabulary, grammar, metaphors, and idioms. Even the latter has been impregnated with American words and idioms, a process certain to continue. India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, and its distinctive words, idioms, grammar, rhetoric and rhythms are numerous and pervasive. American Sign Language, which has its own grammatical system, cannot be translated word for word because of idioms. Synonyms expression, idiomatic expression, turn of phrase, set phrase, fixed expression, phrase formal locution 1.1mass noun A form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people. he had a feeling for phrase and idiom Example sentencesExamples You have always been fond of quaint and archaic words, so I shall speak to you in your own idiom, rather than vainly attempting to adopt the modes and manners of modern English, as she is spoken today. He not only lent a thundering voice to Panthic politics but also gave a new meaning, direction and idiom to it. But this is a highly agreeable book, saved by Shelby Hearon's command of irony and idiom from the cliches of sentimental romance. We, of course, would say that the members are in the club: the example therefore illustrates the way in which Spinoza's purified metaphysical idiom conflicts with the language of man. The translations I offer aim to transcribe the phrasing of the French as exactly as possible, often at the expense of English idiom or felicity of expression. In one way you can look at the book as an anthology of fairy-tales retold in a modern idiom. In turn, tradition was transformed into a modern idiom creating continuity between old and new. Sprachgefuhl (with an umlaut over the ‘u’) is a feeling for language, a sensitiveness to idiom. A language of this kind would not share the disadvantages of a scientific idiom different from common usage. When the movie Wayne's World was released in Latin America, a lot of the film's American idiom and idiosyncratic language didn't translate well, if at all. Regional differences need the idiom of globalisation to articulate themselves. The Jews spoke an Islamic cultural language, and in giving their cultural idiom a material expression, they relied on contemporary Islamic art for inspiration. The film is an accurate witness to the Gospels using a modern idiom. She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom. But he is a politician who came to power using the idiom of fellowship and community. The ideology has its importance in that it puts in an Islamic idiom what might otherwise be expressed in a nationalist or Marxist idiom. Fritsche's point is that Heidegger's idiom and use of language were part of a shared tradition of right-wing thought that emerged in the 1920s in Germany. Rexroth had reimagined the poems as the work of someone on the other side of the Pacific Rim, speaking in a plain, natural-breathing, neutral American idiom. We need to make that point-in a warm and affectionate way, and in their language and idiom. The few reviews written in a public idiom whether in literary journals or the general press are increasingly characterized by their blandly uncritical quality. Synonyms language, mode of expression, style of speech, speech, talk, -speak, way/manner of speaking, usage, phraseology, phrasing, choice of words, vocabulary, parlance, tongue, vernacular, jargon, patter, argot, patois, cant French façon de parler informal lingo formal locution 1.2 The dialect of a people or part of a country. Example sentencesExamples The author's use of a southern idiom adds regional charm. The linguistic logic of the dot.com bubble was expressed in a particularly Californian idiom. There are southern and northern dialects, each having three regional idioms. She perfectly recreates the idioms and dialects of a certain sort of Manchester, and it was un-put-downable in a slightly addictive, confessional way. It is an uphill task capturing the true spirit of the original, not missing out on the nuances and finer points of the dialect and the local idiom, or for that matter, the tenor and authentic flavour of the literary work in question. The soap videos provide both a glimpse of popular British culture and useful exposure to regional accents and idioms. Synonyms regional language, local language, local tongue, local speech, local parlance, variety of language 2A characteristic mode of expression in music or art. they were both working in a neo-impressionist idiom Example sentencesExamples The New York Times explained that ‘Monroe created one of the most durable idioms in American music.’ Composers are not standing in line to compose ballets, and, in fact, the idiom of much modern music might not be all that suitable for dance. He then spent two years in Paris, and on his return to New York worked in the prevailing Abstract Expressionist idiom, being particularly influenced by Jackson Pollock. Similarly, in their music, whole groups of people have often adopted characteristic idioms and inflections, which in course of time took the form of favouring some pitches or pitch intervals and avoiding others. At the same time his style changed, as he abandoned Cubist leanings for a more naturalistic idiom. In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies. Although I really don't like Jazz, I do like the way Gershwin uses the jazz idiom to create sublime music, that sounds fresh and modern eighty years after it was written. The dance and the dancer's idiom transcend time, space and language. But the more I hear it the more I hear Jewish melodies expressed through German musical idioms - and vice versa. Drawing is still widely regarded in the Indian art world as a subordinate idiom; however complex or powerful a drawing may be, very few viewers are disposed to accord it an autonomous position. An accomplished singer, she is well versed in singing various styles and idioms of music. But the Lowell of Life Studies was nothing but a maker - a poet who forged the apparently natural idiom on which other poets were to depend. Long a downtown resident, Mitchell treats, within the confines of his abstract idiom, such natural phenomena as clouds and trees, as well as the urban language of streets and buildings. The second device relied on words rather than theatrical idioms and images. Now 29, Kate is quite content to stick with folk, rather than crossing her music with more mainstream idioms to court commercial success. Stylistically, she has moved from a highly detailed, expressive idiom to a pared-down rendition of place in which the gestural mark is less pronounced. As a result, music hall idioms and artistes were ubiquitous. Carrà, Soffici, and Ottone Rosai contributed to the Strapaese circle with landscapes and genre painting rendered in a conservative, naturalist idiom. He creates paintings on the lines of the artistes of yore who not only adopted a conventional artistic idiom, but also used natural dyes. In his abstract expressionist paintings, popular idioms found in his music clearly present themselves. Origin Late 16th century: from French idiome, or via late Latin from Greek idiōma 'private property, peculiar phraseology', from idiousthai 'make one's own', from idios 'own, private'. This goes back to Greek idiōma ‘private or peculiar phraseology’, from idiousthai ‘make one's own’ from Greek idios ‘own, private’. Idiosyncrasy (early 17th century) is from idios combined with sun ‘with’ and krasis ‘mixture’, and originally meant ‘physical constitution peculiar to an individual’. Rhymes cryptosporidium, cymbidium, iridium, rubidium Definition of idiom in US English: idiom nounˈidēəmˈɪdiəm 1A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light). Example sentencesExamples We turn next to semantic constraints triggered by the lexical properties of certain predicates, idioms, and anaphoric expressions. Students also were sincere in writing diaries in their rooms by asking various questions about words, idioms, and the differences between Korean and English. English is a difficult enough language to learn without all the idioms and metaphors and other figures of speech. On the other hand, Indian and Western philosophical studies should be pursued independently using idioms, language, and metaphors appropriate to the investigations. India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, and its distinctive words, idioms, grammar, rhetoric and rhythms are numerous and pervasive. My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level. They can be familial or communal, as when an ethos, history, or way of life is articulated in ideas and words, manners, customs, folkways, myths, idioms, categories of discourse. Given a larger sample, individual idioms might be more precisely defined and differentiated from one another. Their problem is to understand when people talk in indirect speech and use irony, idioms and metaphors because they take each sentence literally. Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors. Even the latter has been impregnated with American words and idioms, a process certain to continue. Even though I'm a carefree user of idioms like ‘I could care less’, I agree with John's judgment about ‘don't care less.’ Consider the case of idioms which contain a word which has no uses outside the idiom itself. First, one must have a firm command over classical Arabic language including its vocabulary, grammar, metaphors, and idioms. Brewer's aim was to help readers understand the context of the catchphrases, clichés, slogans and odd linguistic idioms by which the British make themselves understood. Still, ‘horse and buggy’ is a fixed expression, a collocation, an idiom, and ‘buggy and horse’ is not. To be an adept speech-reader generally requires fluency in the language, as speech-reading requires knowledge of idioms and predicting what phrases would be most likely to occur in any given context. For this, the dictionary has 80,000 words and phrases with over 10,000 phrasal verbs and idioms highlighted. According to the most common definition, idioms are linguistic expressions whose overall meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent parts. American Sign Language, which has its own grammatical system, cannot be translated word for word because of idioms. Synonyms expression, idiomatic expression, turn of phrase, set phrase, fixed expression, phrase 1.1 A form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people. he had a feeling for phrase and idiom Example sentencesExamples The ideology has its importance in that it puts in an Islamic idiom what might otherwise be expressed in a nationalist or Marxist idiom. We need to make that point-in a warm and affectionate way, and in their language and idiom. But he is a politician who came to power using the idiom of fellowship and community. In turn, tradition was transformed into a modern idiom creating continuity between old and new. Regional differences need the idiom of globalisation to articulate themselves. The Jews spoke an Islamic cultural language, and in giving their cultural idiom a material expression, they relied on contemporary Islamic art for inspiration. Sprachgefuhl (with an umlaut over the ‘u’) is a feeling for language, a sensitiveness to idiom. The translations I offer aim to transcribe the phrasing of the French as exactly as possible, often at the expense of English idiom or felicity of expression. Rexroth had reimagined the poems as the work of someone on the other side of the Pacific Rim, speaking in a plain, natural-breathing, neutral American idiom. We, of course, would say that the members are in the club: the example therefore illustrates the way in which Spinoza's purified metaphysical idiom conflicts with the language of man. In one way you can look at the book as an anthology of fairy-tales retold in a modern idiom. The film is an accurate witness to the Gospels using a modern idiom. The few reviews written in a public idiom whether in literary journals or the general press are increasingly characterized by their blandly uncritical quality. A language of this kind would not share the disadvantages of a scientific idiom different from common usage. When the movie Wayne's World was released in Latin America, a lot of the film's American idiom and idiosyncratic language didn't translate well, if at all. But this is a highly agreeable book, saved by Shelby Hearon's command of irony and idiom from the cliches of sentimental romance. He not only lent a thundering voice to Panthic politics but also gave a new meaning, direction and idiom to it. Fritsche's point is that Heidegger's idiom and use of language were part of a shared tradition of right-wing thought that emerged in the 1920s in Germany. You have always been fond of quaint and archaic words, so I shall speak to you in your own idiom, rather than vainly attempting to adopt the modes and manners of modern English, as she is spoken today. She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom. Synonyms language, mode of expression, style of speech, speech, talk, -speak, manner of speaking, way of speaking, usage, phraseology, phrasing, choice of words, vocabulary, parlance, tongue, vernacular, jargon, patter, argot, patois, cant 1.2 The dialect of a people or part of a country. Example sentencesExamples It is an uphill task capturing the true spirit of the original, not missing out on the nuances and finer points of the dialect and the local idiom, or for that matter, the tenor and authentic flavour of the literary work in question. The author's use of a southern idiom adds regional charm. There are southern and northern dialects, each having three regional idioms. The linguistic logic of the dot.com bubble was expressed in a particularly Californian idiom. She perfectly recreates the idioms and dialects of a certain sort of Manchester, and it was un-put-downable in a slightly addictive, confessional way. The soap videos provide both a glimpse of popular British culture and useful exposure to regional accents and idioms. Synonyms regional language, local language, local tongue, local speech, local parlance, variety of language 2A characteristic mode of expression in music or art. they were both working in a neo-impressionist idiom Example sentencesExamples As a result, music hall idioms and artistes were ubiquitous. Long a downtown resident, Mitchell treats, within the confines of his abstract idiom, such natural phenomena as clouds and trees, as well as the urban language of streets and buildings. Now 29, Kate is quite content to stick with folk, rather than crossing her music with more mainstream idioms to court commercial success. An accomplished singer, she is well versed in singing various styles and idioms of music. Similarly, in their music, whole groups of people have often adopted characteristic idioms and inflections, which in course of time took the form of favouring some pitches or pitch intervals and avoiding others. The dance and the dancer's idiom transcend time, space and language. In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies. He then spent two years in Paris, and on his return to New York worked in the prevailing Abstract Expressionist idiom, being particularly influenced by Jackson Pollock. But the more I hear it the more I hear Jewish melodies expressed through German musical idioms - and vice versa. The second device relied on words rather than theatrical idioms and images. Although I really don't like Jazz, I do like the way Gershwin uses the jazz idiom to create sublime music, that sounds fresh and modern eighty years after it was written. The New York Times explained that ‘Monroe created one of the most durable idioms in American music.’ In his abstract expressionist paintings, popular idioms found in his music clearly present themselves. At the same time his style changed, as he abandoned Cubist leanings for a more naturalistic idiom. He creates paintings on the lines of the artistes of yore who not only adopted a conventional artistic idiom, but also used natural dyes. But the Lowell of Life Studies was nothing but a maker - a poet who forged the apparently natural idiom on which other poets were to depend. Drawing is still widely regarded in the Indian art world as a subordinate idiom; however complex or powerful a drawing may be, very few viewers are disposed to accord it an autonomous position. Composers are not standing in line to compose ballets, and, in fact, the idiom of much modern music might not be all that suitable for dance. Carrà, Soffici, and Ottone Rosai contributed to the Strapaese circle with landscapes and genre painting rendered in a conservative, naturalist idiom. Stylistically, she has moved from a highly detailed, expressive idiom to a pared-down rendition of place in which the gestural mark is less pronounced. Origin Late 16th century: from French idiome, or via late Latin from Greek idiōma ‘private property, peculiar phraseology’, from idiousthai ‘make one's own’, from idios ‘own, private’.
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