Crossword clues for idioms
idioms
- They're not to be taken literally
- They're not meant literally
- They're hard to translate
- Speech mannerisms
- Some long crossword answers
- Potential trouble for Google Translate
- Out to lunch and having a bite
- Nonliteral phrases
- Make a scene and act up
- Local expressions
- Language learner's challenges
- Dialects of a region
- Colorful phrases
- Colloquial sayings
- Cold feet and hot air
- Clever turns of phrases
- Challenges for language learners
- "Toe the line" and "thumb a ride," for example: 2 wds
- "Tickled pink" and "in the red"
- "Shake a leg" and "break a leg"
- "Seeing red" and "Going green"
- "Rat race" or "cash cow"
- "It costs an arm and a leg" and "wait on someone hand and foot," for example
- "Hang your head" and "eating crow"
- "Hands down" and "Talk turkey"
- "Hands down" and "eating crow," for two
- "Elbow grease" and "head honcho"
- "Eat crow" and "talk turkey"
- "Chew the fat" and "eat crow"
- "Break a leg" and "running on empty"
- ''Eat crow'' and ''talk turkey''
- They trip up foreigners
- Curry favor and crack a joke, e.g.
- Some dictionary entries
- Hurdles for language learners
- See red, talk a blue streak, etc.
- "Hands down" and "cold feet"
- Subject in foreign language class
- They're seldom taken literally
- Everyday expressions
- Hot potatoes and cold fish?
- Blue-collar and pink-slip
- Regional dialects
- Characteristic styles
- Argots
- Dialects of regions
- Distinct styles
- Eat crow and talk turkey, e.g.
- Characteristic modes of expression
- See red, talk a blue streak, etc
- Is accepting nothing framed in stupid colloquialisms
- I misdo translation of particular expressions
- Figures of speech
- Manners of speaking
- They're not literal
- Common phrases
- "Crack a joke" and "cut corners," e.g
- Vernacular phrases
- Turns of phrase
- Translator's challenges
- Tough phrases for foreigners
Wiktionary
idioms
n. (idiomatic English)
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.