"Pound the pavement" or "break the ice"

Usage examples of idiom.

The pronunciation was barbarously alien, whilst the idiom seemed to include both scraps of curious archaism and expressions of a wholly incomprehensible cast.

Boston the idiom of choice for the male sex-organ is: Unit, which is why Ennet House residents are wryly amused by E.

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.

Crebillon three visits every week, and from him I learned all I know of the French language, but I found it impossible to get rid of my Italian idioms.

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.

Rough plaster walls, uneven red paver tiles underfoot, and exposed timbers over their heads placed them solidly in the Southwest idiom of architecture, even without the bright rug on one wall and a collection of Indian pottery arranged on a shaky-looking table, little more than lashed-together branches topped by unsanded planks.

Southwest idiom of architecture, even without the bright rug on one wall and a collection of Indian pottery arranged on a shaky-looking table, little more than lashed-together branches topped by unsanded planks.

My grasp of idiom is insecure or at least it does not have the fluidity which Scop himself has developed but it will do, it will do, my purposes at least are made clear to him in the sudden shifting of his features.

Although Rochelle adapted English idioms to Agro, the language itself followed a form patterned after languages of Latin derivation.

And to the popular and to the liturgical chants they went in search of their proper idiom.

Nonetheless, Franks considered himself an innovator, and had fashioned a unique idiom that was part military theory, part country.

Homer, should not leave some gloss of grecism upon the idiom into which so many of its greatest beauties had been transfused.

In fact, so great is the number of these words, idioms, phrases, and terms of speech derived from Guarani, that Dr.

He succeeded in mastering the idiom and the intonation of this foreign tongue, and his Parnassian accent can be discerned only by a trained ear.

Yet the positive institutions of the kings had blended themselves with the public and private manners of the city, some fragments of that venerable jurisprudence were compiled by the diligence of antiquarians, and above twenty texts still speak the rudeness of the Pelasgic idiom of the Latins.