Sentence examples for peculiar idiom from inspiring English sources
The peculiar idiom of the trumpet limited it mostly to fanfares and signals, however; it was only occasionally joined with other wind instruments.
Skaz, in Russian literature, a written narrative that imitates a spontaneous oral account in its use of dialect, slang, and the peculiar idiom of that persona.
Once it gets going (the preliminaries are exhausting), and you get used to its peculiar idiom, "The Lord of the Rings" is consistently beautiful and often exciting — despite some dead passages here and there, it's surely the best big-budget fantasy movie in years.
One of the pleasures of the movie is that the members of the gang possess some affection for one another; they like to chat and carry on, taunting each other in Mamet's peculiar shorthand idiom, leavened with such outbreaks of tough-guy baroque as "I don't want you as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton.
Not only is the work barren of plot or narrative drama, but Gaddis also deploys a peculiar, disconcerting prose idiom: sentences that use a jumpy splice technique to recreate the state of mind of a dying man who is dosing himself with the oral steroid prednisone.
In addition, practically every profession has its own expressions, which include the technical terminology and sometimes also the casual words or idioms peculiar to the group.
And the idiom is peculiar to West Virginia.
The terms are quite abstract (and his idiom wonderfully peculiar—"coached"? As in acting school?), but he is also author, elsewhere, of the best essay on Othello.
There is a New York idiom, if not peculiar to the city then at least prevalent in it, that seems to capture this feeling.
An "idiom" is a phrase peculiar to a specific language or place.
