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Nonliteral phrases
Answer for the clue "Nonliteral phrases ", 6 letters:
idioms
Alternative clues for the word idioms
- "Seeing red" and "Going green"
- Colorful phrases
- Characteristic styles
- "Eat crow" and "talk turkey"
- Regional dialects
- "It costs an arm and a leg" and "wait on someone hand and foot," for example
- Everyday expressions
- Subject in foreign language class
- "Break a leg" and "running on empty"
- Curry favor and crack a joke, e.g.
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.