As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. From LearnThat.org. [George Will (1941 - ) American journalist]
An imaginative orchestral idiom. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Greek idiom translates as "into the ages of the ages.". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
In fact, the word idiom comes from the Greek root idio, meaning a unique signature. From Wordnik.com. [4. Idioms] Reference
Keeping only the title idiom from Jolson's hit, the Chatmon composition stands a New York story on its head. From Wordnik.com. [Blues Song Is a Decades-Long Music Lesson] Reference
Provincial or Limousin idiom, it was corrupted to Deus lo volt, or. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Besides, I think the idiom is "through one's hat" rather than out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Trick or Treat] Reference
The true meaning of this idiom is "Something or someone that is expected to succeed". From Wordnik.com. [Congresswoman apologizes for 'great white hope' comment] Reference
German which had their equivalents in English idiom, must frequently have illuminated his difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
She improves in idiom, although she still omits articles and uses the "did" construction for the simple past. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
Admiration for Bartlett, Santos and Stein aside, as far as I know the Australian idiom is still "go AND read books". From Wordnik.com. [democracy is coming] Reference
And when exactly does an idiom become an idiom: is let out in I let the dress out a phrasal verb, but in Who let the dogs out not?. From Wordnik.com. [P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
(in English idiom, 'smoking tobacco') was the unhesitating answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
"'Upsy-daisy'! then - if I recall the idiom correctly.". From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
This idiom, which is thoroughly Hebrew, is to be explained on the same principle as in S: 69. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
It is true, he handles with ease Hebrew and Aramaic, or, rather, the rabbinical idiom, which is a mixture of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Rashi]
Her idiom is the hauntingly beautiful and hypnotically rhythmic home grown music that has become her trademark: wassoulou. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
Around her name and image, he circulates the particles of his own uncanny idiom, which is unlike anything in contemporary American poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Artists at Elbo.ws] Reference
How standard of an idiom is it?. From Wordnik.com. [A debate centering around etymological and logical fallacies « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Otherwise the natural idiom is surely. From Wordnik.com. [English in the Times] Reference
The answer is there really isn't a translation that is exact, that is why, it is called an "idiom". From Wordnik.com. [looking forward to] Reference
Adjectives have a governing power through a preposition and then the preposition to be used belongs to the "idiom" of the language. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
Why the idiom is right, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Traer versus llenar] Reference
This truly Arabic idiom is varied in many ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
There are a few changes that i’ve noticed, mostly relating to slang and idiom, which is to be expected in a translation. From Wordnik.com. [This Entry is All About Me (As if All the Others Aren’t) « Whatever] Reference
This is jazz's most personal, introspective idiom. From Wordnik.com. [Bucking Jazz's Macho Myth] Reference
The website idiom. co.uk has a list of schools in the UK. From Wordnik.com. [50 side businesses to set up from home] Reference
They're in another idiom, but have his idiosyncratic flow. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Recordings From Anthony Braxton] Reference
Collective guilt has long been a familiar idiom of contemporary politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey Up From Guilt] Reference
He learned to write the American popular idiom, but he was writing operetta. From Wordnik.com. [100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw] Reference
Experts don't agree about the origin of the idiom "to have someone over a barrel.". From Wordnik.com. [Marty Kaplan: Of Course We're Depressed -- They Have Us Over a Barrel] Reference
Don doesn't remember selling the idiotic idiom or even sending her to a hotel room. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 6 -- Dissolving Identity and the Female Gaze] Reference
See-tress, therefore, has become a Vietnamese idiom in the new capitalistic Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [In Vietnam, Stress over 'Stress'] Reference
Like jokes or poetry, the largely Americanized idiom of the Internet suffers in translation. From Wordnik.com. [A Regional Race Into Cyberspace] Reference
And when I say "read," I mean sentences, not fragments, the idiom that pervades many of the new technologies. From Wordnik.com. [Robert David Jaffee: Reading With or Without Depression] Reference
If the increasing gap between her written and our modern idiom is denying children this, perhaps changes are needed. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: I say, chaps, the queerest thing has happened…] Reference
Other programmers were equally confounded, using phrases like "new visual idiom" to describe the work -- and then passing. From Wordnik.com. [Will Wright Likes His 'Stupid Fun'] Reference
Everyone understands that this rarely used idiom refers to an awkward position, but not even native speakers can visualize it. From Wordnik.com. [All Sound, No Fury] Reference
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