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I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
"Time is gold" a true idiom.
It's an idiom. You don't have to understand its literal meaning.
Goethe used this idiom. Why, then, should it be incorrect today?
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
It's an idiom.
It's a common idiom.
I'm sorry, sir, but, "Your donkey is on fire," is not an idiom in any language.
It's a very common idiom in my neighborhood.
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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In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.
Some of the usage prescriptions improved clarity and were kept; others that yielded discordant violations of idiom were eventually revised.
I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]
In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young.
She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black.
You’re history, we say […]. Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.
the idiom of the expressionists
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