Sentence examples for familiar idioms from inspiring English sources

Yet a distinctive sensibility emerges in Price's pervasively elegant and subtle handling of familiar idioms.

Parker Lewis is back with an interesting take on familiar idioms that have been turned inside out.

It is satisfying to see some familiar idioms such as that of Robert Lobe, whose specialty is wrapping sheets of aluminum around trees and hammering out their surfaces.

This is a morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly.

The body and its morphology are central to Irigaray's philosophical method, as she insists that sexuate being pervades one's existence, and that the pretense of shedding one's sex when writing or speaking in standard, familiar idioms and syntax causes the feminine to disappear into the masculine/neutral discourse that dominates the patriarchal order.

So, we have a beautiful grid pattern, awesome entries, and a pun on a familiar idiom buried within those entries.

While never easy on the ear, it finds originality in familiar idiom and ends in a comforting C major.

Actually, Mr. Bush said "not over my dead body," thereby mangling a familiar idiom, but the crowd's roar of approval indicated that everyone knew what he meant.

What distinguished them from other "Mean Streets" and "Goodfellas" wannabes was that Mr. Bross and Mr. Younger managed to find new excitement in a familiar idiom.

Grab the second word off the back of four familiar two-word phrases, and you wind up with another familiar idiom that the VAMPIRE at 38 Across would definitely disagree with.

Agreements with Israel to combat terror were "interpreted in a slippery way," while within the Arab world Mr. Arafat "spoke in the familiar idiom of Islamic radicalism," the report contends.