英语 example sentences with "idiom"

I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
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"Time is gold" a true idiom.
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It's an idiom. You don't have to understand its literal meaning.
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Goethe used this idiom. Why, then, should it be incorrect today?
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The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
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It's an idiom.
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It's a common idiom.
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I'm sorry, sir, but, "Your donkey is on fire," is not an idiom in any language.
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It's a very common idiom in my neighborhood.
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The expression “as for the story, the partridge landed on it” is actually a very old idiom, which is used in connection with someone who has committed a crime; when you ask him about it, he doesn't even answer you! We then say that the partridge (or the hen) has landed on it.
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That idiom is as phony as a coin with my face on it.
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A "yo-ji-juku-go" in Japanese is an idiom made from a compound of four characters.
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This is a Berber idiom and it can't be translated word for word.
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What does this Berber idiom mean?
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This is an idiom.
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"Having a clear conscience" is an idiom.
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I think this may be a literal translation of an idiom.
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A dialect is a local idiom.
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Music is a universal idiom.
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A dialect is a type of idiom spoken in a certain region.
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I'm an elderly student of the Russian language, but unfortunately, I do not have complete mastery of that beautiful idiom.
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To translate is to express in one language an idea expressed in another idiom. This can rarely be done by a literal, word-for-word translation.
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I don't understand that idiom.
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That's an idiom.
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