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The language proper or peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class.

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  • I believe, as do a number of Hebrew scholars, that a proper reading of the idioms translates as, “At some point previously …Gods, He created the physical universe.”
  • One of my favorite Spanish idioms translates as "blue prince" in English.
  • As a result, certain code idioms within existing code may need to be changed.
  • An idioms is a term which must be learned as a unit, because its meaning is not clear from its parts.
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