How To Use Idiomatic In A Sentence
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Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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But "LeAnn Rimes," the 17-year-old star's new CD of country classics, may be uniquely bizarre: not because it's unidiomatic, but because it's so emotionally empty.
An Abc Of Country Song Covers
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It is not idiomatic in speech or informal writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like participles, adjectives and also some idiomatic preposition phrases, when used as adjuncts, need an understood subject (or, it might be better to say, a target of predication) to be filled in if they are to be understood.
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Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
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Unlike other spam filters Antispam Marisuite takes into consideration much more statistical parameters of messages such as idiomatical constructions, message's route and sender's IP address, presence of phishing links, parameters of attached pictures and so on.
2BakSa.Net
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I see you providing no evidence that the wisdom language ascribed to Jesus is "the one and only top-ladder creation language idiomatical biblical language which is uniquely associated with Godhead in the history of Judaism.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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It takes a few minutes, but Tharaud's touch and his way with the ornaments feels right, and they start to seem quite natural and idiomatic.
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In other words, Helga Dernesch and Herbert von Karajan made the cut, despite frankly unidiomatic contributions from Karajan, but Birgit Nilsson -- under three different conductors, all in better sound than a 1903 wax cylinder.
"Top" Ten Immolation Scenes?
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Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
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It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Life of Addison, 1672-1719
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His terrific ear for idiomatic speech makes dialogue sizzle off the page, and comic patter is widespread.
Times, Sunday Times
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Formal idioms are idiomatic in the sense just stated - their properties cannot be derived from more general principles.
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His terrific ear for idiomatic speech makes dialogue sizzle off the page.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some idiomatic phrases can bear a sense which is the opposite of what the words appear to say.
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All three works on this disc are idiomatically performed and decently, if rather drily, recorded.
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Musically, it's i.e., the Boulez/Chéreau production from 1976-80 at Bayreuth unidiomatic.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Idiomatic interfaces, however, are based on learning how to accomplish things - a natural, human process.
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That helps to explain why speakers who are ready to accept words like unloosen and the like as curious but idiomatic continue to reject unpacked in its ‘full’ reading, even after centuries of common use.
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It must be confessed, however, that the field of English slang verse and canting song, though not altogether barren, has yet small claim to the idiomatic and plastic treatment that obtains in many an _Argot - song_ and _Germania-romance; _ in truth, with a few notable exceptions, there is little in the present collection that can claim literary rank.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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Even in the diaspora, the narrative of his survival, as he told it, was a story of relationships, networks, debts owned and paid, and rights and responsibilities mediated through kin and idiomatic kin.
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Neil Bartlett is taking his leave as artistic director in great style, with his elegantly idiomatic translation of one of Molière's greatest plays, and a production that is among the very best Molière I've seen.
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Lippa's music, though idiomatic, is not rich in melody, depending largely on rhythm and harmony.
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The five artists played this splendid score with precision, marvelously pure intonation, and an idiomatic fluency that alternately charmed and astounded!
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Adding vitality to the virtuosity is a terrific ear for idiomatic speech.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thing is, as I keep saying, musically and dramatically, it's unidiomatic.
Reconsidering the Boulez/Chéreau Ring
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An idiomatical expression which is not an anomaly, can be analyzed.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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And the main difference I think between freely improvised music and the musics you quoted is, that they are idiomatic and freely improvised music isn't.
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The canzonas and sonatas are unsurpassed - in scale, expressive range, and sheer idiomatic flair - in the entire sixteenth-century instrumental repertoire.
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Second, more specific aspects of idiomatic meaning are provided by the’ ontological mapping’ that applies to a given idiomatic expression.
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A common antebellum designation for the country, these United States survived in the 20th century in folksy idiomatic usage.
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In the Russian culture, the colour with the biggest variety of negative connotations reflected in idiomatic expressions is black.
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At the phonetic symbol of this word, "idiomatic".
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The secret of this appears to lie in sifting out what is most idiomatic or characteristic of a man, purging and depurating this of all that is uncharacteristic, and then presenting the former unmixed and free, the man of the man.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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In addition to drawing on family stories and memories in his writing, Forbes also culls stories and phrases from African American oral tradition and frequently employs colloquial and idiomatic language in his poetry.
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Although I hoped to become reasonably fluent in Shangaan, I assumed that a local woman's knowledge of idiomatic speech and local language history would enrich my understanding of both the interviews and women's culture, however well I might eventually be able to communicate on my own.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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This was evidenced in the format and style used for presenting ideas (semantic level), as well as in the use of unidiomatic language not following cultural conventions of the English language (pragmatic level).
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But it is surely unidiomatic, as a Google Fight reveals; a search through Google News shows an even more lopsided tally, 200:1 in favor of “set them up” rather than 20:1.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]
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Definitely a fine orchestra, Cassuto and his forces give idiomatic interpretations of Bomtempo's music, my sole reservation being a sagging of momentum in the Trio section of the 2nd Symphony's Minuetto.
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Where do you think the idiomatic expressions ‘mind your manners’ and ‘mind your own business’ come from?
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Secondly, all the various kinds of modality can be expressed (some more idiomatically than others) without the use of the modal verbs.
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It is not idiomatic in speech or informal writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a lot more fluent and idiomatic than ten items or fewer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if Ockham's semantics, as well as his theory of mental language governed by a trans-idiomatic mental grammar transforming the theorems of terminist logic into a theory of thought processes (William of Ockham, Summa log., 1974, 11ff), [46] was by no means undisputed, and came under severe criticism by his opponents as well as no less severe modifications by his ˜followers™.
Medieval Semiotics
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And when we get to the difference between being in town and being on campus, or for that matter the difference between being in time and being on time, we're pretty clearly in the realm of idiomatic phrasal patterns.
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In his lecture, he bore down on the importance of idiomatic usage in a language.
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A superbly idiomatic collaboration between a virtuoso conductor and a stellar soloist!
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One important component of successful language learning is the mastery of idiomatic forms of expression, including idioms, collocations, and sentence frames (collectively referred to here as formulaic sequences).
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She it was, nimble-fingered and observant and idiomatic of imagination, who held together a sometimes wayward consort.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can reproduce original instruments, authentic period acoustics, idiomatic playing styles, etc, but the rock on which the musical purists must all eventually founder is that it is impossible to reproduce original listeners.
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He commanded dynamic playing from the young musicians and imbued each score with idiomatic fervor and a wonderful sense of the music's ebb and flow.
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he expressed himself idiomatically
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Considering Hebrews 1:10-12 the issue is not only that "some specific creation language" refers to Jesus as if there was many comparable creation languages from which only one would be randomly not used about divine agents; rather the writer is using the one and only top-ladder creation language idiomatical biblical language which is uniquely associated with Godhead in the history of Judaism.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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It's unidiomatic and dramatically sort of obvious, but it's enjoyable.
Reconsidering the Boulez/Chéreau Ring
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unidiomatic," furnishing numerous examples from varied sources that inadvertently prove the adjective to be inapplicable.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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Note the idiomatic use of _bien_, and cf. _je le veux bien_, ‘I am _perfectly_ willing’; _voulez-vous bien vous en aller_, ‘_won’t_ you go away!’
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
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When his music is performed with conviction, vocal beauty, and idiomatic French style Faust can still provide an engrossing evening of musical theater.
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English is a language abounding with idiomatic expressions.
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Kenneth Slowik's direction is surefooted and idiomatic, and the recording is a treat: well natural and detailed, so you don't miss a note, and the essays in the booklet are fascinating.
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Hebrews 1:10-12; Ego Eimi sayings; doxologies applied to Jesus directly; Jesus being the "Lord my God" John 20:28 is idiomatical expression about God which is not comparable to elohims of Qumran for instance.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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English is a language abounding with idiomatic expressions.
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Part of his university career was spent at the Sorbonne and he was fluent in wonderfully idiomatic French.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bite the bullet" is an idiomatic expression that means to accept something unpleasant without complaining.
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The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
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By model and practice, families nested children in webs of relationships, sanctified through kin or kin-like (idiomatic kin) moralities.
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The idiomatic approach of Reform Unitarianism takes realism one step further and recognizes that some of the underlying ideas of other religions must be valid if the God we worship is indeed the God of all Creation and not merely an imagined god of ethnic or sectarian autolatry ....
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In his lecture, he bore down on the importance of idiomatic usage in a language.
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Aside from this special interpretation of parallel modification, English seems to be deficient in easy or idiomatic ways to talk about the properties of relations as distinct from the properties of the items related.
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There is no doubt that native speakers of a language have a feel for its nuances, are comfortable using its idiomatic expressions, and speak it fluently.
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Under James Conlon's sensitive and idiomatic leadership, and after some rough moments in the overture on opening night, the orchestra sparkled as it kept the action moving, sprinkling Rossinian pixy dust over the assembled and deftly changing gears from the frivolity later on for a few tender moments.
Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer
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The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
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The first two are internal, one with simple word stems and the other with complex or idiomatic expressions.
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The first experiment showed greater interference between idioms with the same syntactic structure, demonstrating that idiomatic representations contain syntactic information.
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This is comparable to attempting a critical analysis of Shakespeare's Elizabethan phraseology and idiomatic expression in Chinese, while ignoring the relevance of the English language!
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Citizens here who read The Korea Times have the opportunity to amass a wider variety of idiomatic and colloquial expressions written by foreigners from various backgrounds.
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All three movements of approximately equal duration are flowing, expressive and full of idiomatic pianistic gestures and an individual harmonic and textural syntax within a broadly neo-classical frame.
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However, every solution contains idiomatic patterns, which are not formal enough to emblazon in a book but are pervasive nonetheless.
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More or less the same story can be told of the binding patterns in certain inalienable possessives and idiomatic constructions in English.
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The idiomatic expression ‘for the birds’ is common enough to crop up in everyday conversation.
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bata" (he spent the night), are idiomatically used for "to be in any state, to continue" without specification of time or season.
Arabian nights. English
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Bite the bullet" is an idiomatic expression that means to accept something unpleasant without complaining.
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In the sphere of concrete concepts too it is worth nothing that the German splits up the idea of killing into the basic concept of dead (tot) and the derivational one of causing to do (or be) so and so (by the method of vocalic change, töot -); the German töot-et (analytically tot-+ vowel change+-et) causes to be dead is, approximately, the formal equivalent of our dead-en-s, though the idiomatic application of this latter word is different311
Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
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E-mail translation services are already available on a number of Web sites, and although their treatment of idiomatic expressions leaves something to be desired, the basic technology is in place.
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Rather than hard driving, power pounding brilliance, the duo-pianists brought musicality and idiomatic style to a memorable performance.
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The problem of punching ‘I’m loving it’ into a corpus is, of course, that the phrase has become insitutionalised and therefore has skewed the frequency data (a good example of how language change is effected through idiomatic – even idiolectic – usage – analogous to way that evolutionary change is triggered by genetic mutations).
C is for Corpus « An A-Z of ELT
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His brilliant rhythmic dexterity and idiomatic sense of Prokofiev's ‘Music of New Russia’ captured the sarcasm and biting wit of the Scherzo: Allegro marcato.
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If the epigraph also arouses expectations that the book will play with the poetic, idiomatic and vulgar potential of dropped consonants and arty franglais, then readers are in for a treat.
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The ubiquitous mouse input device is not metaphoric of anything, but rather is learned idiomatically.
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Eloquently stated in idiomatic English, I'm too lazy.
Me da flojera
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Indeed, it is the antithesis of idiomatic Wagner, thought out with an icy logicality and precision.
Archive 2008-10-01
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the idiomatic richness of English
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Nevertheless, the expressions are idiomatic in the sense that their grammaticality cannot be ‘figured out’ solely by reference to general principles.
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Dacic played this music with idiomatic romanticism and true Russian soul!
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In response to my post on idiomatic similes for superfluity and uselessness in German and English, several people emailed to draw my attention to common expressions such as ‘as useless as a chocolate teapot’ or ‘as a chocolate fireguard’.
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A common antebellum designation for the country, these United States survived in the 20th century in folksy idiomatic usage.
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The book includes literal English translations of idioms, but behind them are idiomatic meanings.
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A small departure from idiomatic standard English, and a use of tense that would be grammatical in some languages.
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He had the ability to write fluent, accurate, and idiomatic English.
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In his lecture, he bore down on the importance of idiomatic usage in a language.
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Bite the bullet" is an idiomatic expression that means to accept something unpleasant without complaining.
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No one can sensibly argue that entirely to dismantle is more fluent and idiomatic than to entirely dismantle.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a bit too specific for an idiomatic prototype.
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I'm married to a non-native speaker and I LOVE getting to explain idiomatic (well, and any other cultural nuanced) expressions to him all the time.
Teaching Dirty Slang to Colleagues
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'To pull a face' is an idiomatic expression.
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Bernarda Fink seduced us all with her sensuously exhaled Shéhérazade, her velvet mezzo timbre allied to clear and idiomatic delivery of Tristan Klingsor's ambivalently erotic texts.
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Hebrews 1:10-12; Ego Eimi sayings; doxologies applied to Jesus directly; Jesus being the "Lord my God" John 20:28 is idiomatical expression about God which is not comparable to elohims of Qumran for instance.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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Talich was not a showy musician, and perhaps his greatest strength, apart from his natural talent as a conductor, was his dedication to presenting idiomatic performances of music with which he had a personal relationship.
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idiomatic English
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If we could imagine a perfect language, we should suppose it would contain a mode of signifying the contrary of every name: this indeed our own language may be said to have, though sometimes in an awkward and unidiomatic manner.
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But the greatest instrumental composer of the period was undoubtedly the blind organist Antonio de Cabezón, favourite of Philip II, who was one of the first composers of genuinely idiomatic keyboard music.
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His brilliant rhythmic dexterity and idiomatic sense of Prokofiev's ‘Music of New Russia’ captured the sarcasm and biting wit of the Scherzo: Allegro marcato.
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Zaeef's book is well written and its Afghani unidiomatic English has been brushed up into readable and lucid prose by the painstaking work of the editors, Alex Stick van Linchoten and Felix Kuehn.
Ehsan Azari: Tales of the Taliban in Their Own Words
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Thousands of idiomatical phrases and colloquial sentences are to be found in almost every Author, especially in the dramatic writers, the force and beauty of which it would be impossible to feel absolutely without, not only a general, but an intimate knowledge of "the arrangement of clauses and construction of periods.
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History
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Some slipped idiomatic expressions or literary allusions into their copy in the hopes that the censor would miss the subtleties - and it often worked.
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The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
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How idiomatic the infinitive / accusative construction was, however, is a matter of some debate.
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The expressions, "generally speaking," and "considering their means," under number 4, are idiomatical and anomalous, the subjects to the participles not being specified.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Both of the Evening Canticles are in his own idiomatic style, and hark back, in different ways, to ancient, time-hallowed chant.
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You will be sure to find, in almost every line of print, at least one group of words that has an idiomatic feel to it.
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I think most young composers have suffered through this: nothing sucks more than watching musicians roll their eyes and mutter and declare bits 'unidiomatic' that, of course, they'd woodshed if the name in the upper-left corner was 'Shostakovich'.
Reading Session
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He has a really idiomatic rapport with the music.
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This is therefore a hybrid form, featuring the idiomatic transitive usage for the first two conjuncts and a more typical intransitive for the third.
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I mentally note some unidiomatic turns of phrase, this time on English efforts by graduating classes in the Foreign Languages school, but am again shy enough not to correct them.
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Just to prove that the United States is a melting pot, they give idiomatic performances of this quintessentially American music!
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Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
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It is an idiomatic language with a complex grammatical system that is considered rich in terms of warmth and expressiveness.
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Describing Miss Banner's misfortune, Miss Moo says that ‘she grew many kinds of sadness in her heart’, an unidiomatic and somewhat poetic expression that suggests at once foreignness and aestheticism.
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New productions and revivals of several Russian novelties have already been announced by the Met, and to insure idiomatic performances it only makes sense to engage artists who have these operas in their blood.
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He had the ability to write fluent, accurate, and idiomatic English.
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The proof, if it required any, that a Frenchman cannot understand the idiomatic style of Shakspeare appears in a French translator, who prided himself on giving a verbal translation of our great poet, not approving of Le Tourneur's paraphrastical version.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Romani uses many idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings, often with metaphorical qualities.
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I wanted to enjoy them but found them convoluted, unidiomatic and odd.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'll try to translate this love song with an eye on idiomatic expressions rendered at least comprehensible and maybe even give it a little poetry.
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Conventional and idiomatical Italian forms have been expressly avoided.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Derived mostly from French (with sprinklings from African, Amerindian, and English dialects), Creole is particularly expressive and idiomatic, using a relatively simple grammatical structure.
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More than idiomatic speech is involved here; there is a sense of rhythm.
Christianity Today
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It's very idiomatic, it contains a lot of polysemantic or homophonic words, which you can play with a lot.
Translating jokes into English leads comics to new punch lines
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Hebrew who had not lived in Chaldea would know Chaldee so well as to use it with the same idiomatic ease as his native tongue; the very impurities in Daniel's use of both are just such as were natural to one in his circumstances, but unnatural to one in a later age, or to one not half Hebrew, half Chaldean in residence as Daniel was.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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That version can't be used predicatively: "This is big deal" might be the boast of a Russian who never mastered the English determiner system, but it's not something that a native speaker would say "to express contempt for something regarded as impressive by another person". idiomatic contempt aside, the anarthrous exclamatory fragment "big deal" is syntactically regular, in that there are lots of other adjective+noun combinations used in a similar way.
Language Log
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This is not an idiomatic organ part but a reduction of a consort texture, almost certainly in five real parts throughout.
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[FN#375] In text "Ant 'amilta maskhará (for maskharah) matah (for matà)," idiomatical Fellah-tongue.
Arabian nights. English
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Idiomatic usages are usually colloquial and informal, more or less obvious figurative extensions of ordinary uses.
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Jesus emptied himself and became human Phil 2:7 for the specific purpose of offending Ian Sample; not really, but it does illustrate how foolish and arrogant in a 21st C. idiomatic way it is to be “offended” by the idea that a personal encounter with the undisguised infinite could be anything less than shrivelling.
Shrivelling in the face of the Infinite « Anglican Samizdat
