as in phrase
a sequence of words having a specific meaning
the English idiom "how are you doing?" is our version of a greeting that in some other languages can be translated as "how are you going?"
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Recent Examples of idiom
Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.
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Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.
—David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Ultimately, Andrews and his actors find Chekhov by abandoning the paraphernalia of the writer’s universe and groping, in their own idiom, across a perilously empty stage, toward one another.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Which is fitting for a composer who, even when developing a homegrown idiom of his own, was criticized for sounding too European.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.
—David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Ultimately, Andrews and his actors find Chekhov by abandoning the paraphernalia of the writer’s universe and groping, in their own idiom, across a perilously empty stage, toward one another.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Which is fitting for a composer who, even when developing a homegrown idiom of his own, was criticized for sounding too European.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiom
phrase
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Click on the image and get redirected to a phishing page that prompts for the wallet seed phrase.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Wallen started selling merchandise using the phrase within 48 hours of the post.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2025
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“Idiom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiom. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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