Sentence examples for a local idiom from inspiring English sources
The result: "We're makin' a whole lot of fires," Captain Felton said, using a local idiom that translates roughly as "the firefighters are busy".
By now, the music practically forms a local idiom — so much so that it was the country's premier bluegrass band, Druha Trava, that was chosen to perform at Prague Castle before U.S. President Barack Obama's speech there last Sunday.
When an expatriate manager does not recognize that a subordinate is seeking reimbursement for a bribe disguised by a code word or when auditors miss a suspect transaction concealed behind a local idiom, the employees themselves and the company as a whole are at serious risk of running afoul of anti-bribery laws.
To walk through Old Homs is to be amidst a context of richly ornamented surfaces, all derived from craftspeople working in a local idiom.
Those with diarrhoea in the 30 days prior to the interview were also asked about the number of episodes and days with diarrhoea in the past month, whether their stool was liquidy/watery (a local idiom for cholera) and/or had blood, which medications or home remedies were taken, and whether health care was sought.
For him, tire planters are a cheap and charming local idiom, an inland version of the beachcomber's driftwood.
He has swept through the capital with a feel for the local idiom -- and a succession of stylish silk capes -- that any American politician would envy.
This book is representative of Runyon's style in its use of an exaggerated version of local idiom to portray a particular class of characters gamblers, promoters, fight managers, race-track bookies, and other habitués of the street.
To capture in a single reference book all of American local idiom seems a brilliant folly (like, say, maniacal lepidopterology or the corking of breezes in bottles) as well as a practical, useful item it's amazing someone didn't think of before.
Perhaps it's why "you don't want to turn into the Collyer brothers" yet remains in the local idiom as a warning to materialistic children.
He anchors his menu in the potent flavors, bright colors and fragrant herbs that define Niçoise cooking, adjusting here and innovating there, always in a way that feels true to the local idiom.
