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Everyday expressions
Answer for the clue "Everyday expressions ", 6 letters:
idioms
Alternative clues for the word idioms
- Some dictionary entries
- Local expressions
- They're hard to translate
- Characteristic modes of expression
- Is accepting nothing framed in stupid colloquialisms
- "Shake a leg" and "break a leg"
- "It costs an arm and a leg" and "wait on someone hand and foot," for example
- Turns of phrase
- Distinct styles
- Manners of speaking
Usage examples of idioms.
My preface was in French, but full of Parisian idioms which rendered it unintelligible to all who had not visited the gay capital, and this circumstance gained me a good many friends amongst the younger generation.
But if the French laughed at my mistakes in speaking their language, I took my revenge amply by turning some of their idioms into ridicule.
Tolkien himself provided, introducing unattested idioms or long circumlocutions where necessary to work around gaps in the Tolkien-made vocabulary?
Betty spoke Tuscan with English idioms and an English accent, but her voice was so silvery and clear that her Italian was delightful to listen to.