Sentence examples for an old idiom from inspiring English sources

This new twist on an old idiom doesn't quite work in the plural.

But we come to Roman history with different priorities – from gender identity to food supply – that makes the ancient past speak to us in a new, as well as an old, idiom.

Since almost all abstract painting seems to be out of the spotlight now, if one goes by what's covered in the art magazines, it might seem that this is an artist who is skilled in an old idiom, not the most enviable position.

It's a bureaucratic nightmare — the old idiom, "You can't beat city hall", really rings true in Japan.

On the matter of whether the American or the British style of education is superior, he employed an old English idiom.

It is an old Hebrew idiom to respect and suspect, and in the case of Iran, it is surely suspect and more suspect, but some room for change leading to respect should be kept, and doing that may seem to be the PM's greatest challenge in his speech tomorrow, as well as in his meeting today.

"It's the old idiom, 'time is money,' " said Lina Shustarovich, an eBay spokeswoman.

The old idiom about not being able to lead a horse to water looks to be true in the first half of this video, with Anna Paterek's steed, Magic, looking very tentative as she tries to guide him into a stream.

As the old idiom goes, 95% of us want to change the world but only 5% of us are prepared to change ourselves.

The old idiom "just keep going and work hard" will not get you where you want to go if you are on the wrong road, going the wrong way.

Remember the old idiom: "Things aren't always as they seem".