Sentence examples for accepted idiom from inspiring English sources

"High school sweetheart" is the accepted idiom: college sweetheart or grade school sweetheart is not.

The Greats were men of their times -- when Playboy Bunnies became a symbol of sexual liberation, and misogyny was the accepted idiom.

Biographers have said that he wanted to convey simple morality tales that taught right and wrong in a universally accepted idiom to children the world over.

It was apparent that the use of culturally accepted idioms aided in communicating with the women especially when there was need to make emphasis.

The accepted colloquial idiom favors it's me.

It is not, as in the past, an example of Ms. Tharp's inability to accept this idiom as a given.

Quine does not accept the general counterfactual idiom, "if X were to happen then Y would happen", as part of regimented theory.

Had the manuscript been accepted, and successful, would Saramago have kept the fine indifference to opinion that let him gradually discover his own incomparable idiom, style and subject matter?

Coll is the only pupil Adès has ever accepted: the 31-year-old Spaniard was making his debut as a Proms composer with this witty and attractive piece, whose heritage in the idioms of flamenco and tango was brazenly flaunted.

The idiom "jumping the shark", referring to the naff overreaching of a formerly respectable endeavour, originated halfway through Happy Days' 10-year run when Fonzie bravely accepted a preposterous challenge to waterski over a corralled shark.

Barber finds his own way by remaining true to the complex idiom of mid-century counterpoint, complex and dense harmonies and declamations, and the occasional big tune -- the very thing that turned the serious music critics of the time into serious haters of his music -- even as they accepted the phantasmagorical Hochkitsch of Messiaen, Boulez's teacher.