How to use in-sentence of “idiom”:
– In order to understand an idiom, one sometimes needs to know the culture from which the idiom comes.
– The idiom identifies a kind of logical fallacy.
– This idiom comes from a German proverb, “das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten.” In 1512, “Narrenbeschwörung” by Thomas Murner includes a woodcut picture showing a woman tossing a baby out with waste water.
– The English phrase is like the Chinese idiom about a “chicken talking to a duck”.
– Moving the goalposts or shifting the goalposts is an idiom which means changing the terms of a debate or a conflict after it has started.Safire, William.
– The idiom is based on the honor shown to cows in Hinduism.
– The name “The Straight Dope” comes from the American idiom meaning roughly “the true information; the full story”.
Example sentences of “idiom”:
– The idiom applies to disputes in which neither side addressed any of the issues raised by the other.
– The idiom summarizes what happens when something which is necessary is rejected along with what is not necessary.
– In this context, “hit the road” is an idiom meaning “get lost” as the following words indicate.
– The idiom “shape up or ship out”, which is like saying “improve your behavior or leave if you don’t”, might be said by an employer or supervisor to an employee, but not to other people.
– The idiom is not uniquely English.
– Xiaomi’s new ‘Rifle’ processor has given weight to several sources linking the latter meaning to the Communist Party of China’s “millet and rifle” revolutionary idiom during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
– The linguist’s term for the real meaning of an idiom is the “subtext”.
– The idiom “pig in a poke” is about what happens when someone does not look to see what is being bought or sold.
– An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the dictionary definitions of each word taken separately.
– The idiom means a purchase which turns out not to be what the seller claimed it was.
– Pig in a poke is an English idiom which means a kind of deceptive trick.
- The idiom applies to disputes in which neither side addressed any of the issues raised by the other.
- The idiom summarizes what happens when something which is necessary is rejected along with what is not necessary.
- In this context, "hit the road" is an idiom meaning "get lost" as the following words indicate.