Sentence examples for idiom use from inspiring English sources
Chomsky's view of language evolution, based on his word-centric, rule-driven generative grammar model of language can't explain some of the observable properties of idiom use.
By Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, June 6 , 1970 P. 28Recently the member of a group of young couples proposed that they invent a catchy but nebulous idiom, use the phrase casually & without explanation everywhere they went & see how long it took before the phrase came back to them as accepted parlance.
Soon afterwards she was asked to "drink tea" with the police – an idiom used to describe interrogations.
The idiom used in this sentence about the football player Nick Mangold's trip to London to watch his sister in the Olympics creates unintended ambiguity.
His eight symphonies (1927, 1946, 1957, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1967, and 1968) are severe in idiom, using a polyphonic technique and asymmetrical rhythms.
Yet as Havers explains, that American idiom – used, like abstract expressionist painting, as propaganda for go-getting Yankee liberties during the cold war – owed its preservation on records to a Berliner.
In Israel, they talk of "mowing the lawn" in Gaza, a callous idiom used to refer to the periodic bombardment of a besieged territory in the hopes of reducing the capacity of militant groups every few years.
In his chapter on sculpture in the Greek manner, Guilhem Scherf says as much, remarking that the "Neo-Classical idiom used by the English sculptors replicates the formulation adopted by Louis XIV for himself".
Though the idiom uses aspects of ballet, the dancers' way of extending a leg by way of a punctuation mark was anti-ballet; you felt no line of energy directed through the leg into the air, just the leg being made to look like a dead-end alley.
William Safire has described the adoption of "Checkers speech" as an idiom, used to refer to any emotionally charged speech by a politician.
It is a novel approach in the domain fusion idiom using a new scoring method.
