Sentence examples for an idiom from inspiring English sources

The part of a sentence 'an idiom' is a phrase used to describe a common expression or phrase that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.
It is commonly used in spoken and written English. Example: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" is an idiom that means not to rely on something before it actually happens.

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"To reach a crescendo" is an idiom.

Every person has an idiom.

There's an idiom: "Like watching sausage getting made".

Does the Italian language have an idiom like emotional baggage?

Pecking order isn't an idiom for no reason.

That is an idiom that the hero taught me.

He needs to commit to a position — an idiom, a sensibility that feels authentic and worthwhile.

It's an idiom that effectively repositions women back into the domestic sphere… it trivialises their words".

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…separate public and private interests, and not mess up even one shred [an idiom to meaning 'scrupulous'].

must be able to be impartial, and not take even one seed [an idiom meaning 'not take anything not belonging to oneself'].

Alluhire should thus not only be understood as a local syndrome, but also as an 'idiom of distress': a culturally prescribed way of communicating distress.

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