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Blue-collar and pink-slip
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idioms
Alternative clues for the word idioms
- See red, talk a blue streak, etc.
- "Seeing red" and "Going green"
- "Hang your head" and "eating crow"
- They're seldom taken literally
- Hurdles for language learners
- Out to lunch and having a bite
- "Hands down" and "Talk turkey"
- "It costs an arm and a leg" and "wait on someone hand and foot," for example
- Nonliteral phrases
- Translator's challenges
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.